The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even ones own even more, ones own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being. – Katherine Anne Porter

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Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someones face or body. – Devon Aoki

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The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks. – Richard Le Gallienne

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I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow’s feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong. – George Bernard Shaw, to Mrs. Patrick Campbell

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But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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