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Sometimes I think I might not have written The Age of Miracles if

Sometimes I think I might not have written The Age of Miracles if I hadnt grown up in California, if I hadnt been exposed to its very particular blend of beauty and disaster, of danger and denial. – Karen Thompson Walker

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Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God. – Jean Anouilh

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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. – Edgar Allan Poe

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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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Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution. – Theophile Gautier

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Even if I accepted that Jesus – like almost every other prophet on record – was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected. – Christopher Hitchens

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