Quote by Charles Baudelaire
The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is d

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present. – Charles Baudelaire

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To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons. – Charles Baudelaire

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Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

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Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom. – Friedrich Schiller

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I look OK. I look better in person than I do on film, which is bad because its how I make my living, but I am not a beauty and on balance I am glad. – Felicity Huffman

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Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone. – Redd Foxx

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