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Quote by Walter Benjamin
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing. – Walter Benjamin

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All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate. – Walter Benjamin

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Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty? – Anna Katharine Green

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All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love. – Evelyn Underhill

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Beauty

I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch of make-up until I went to Los Angeles. – Pamela Anderson

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Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder. – Lew Wallace

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