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Quote by Charles Baudelaire
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terro

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated. – Charles Baudelaire

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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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Beauty
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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute. – Charles Baudelaire

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Art
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Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances. – Charles Baudelaire

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Nature
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My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India. – Mary Chapin Carpenter

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Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition. – David Herbert Lawrence

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I really believe that beauty comes from health – sensible eating and exercise. – Dita Von Teese

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Im not a party animal I took my job as Miss USA very seriously… Sometimes, of course, I want to let it all go. Even though Im a beauty queen, youre also an unofficial ambassador, and theres a lot of pressure. – Rima Fakih

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Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to. – Ethan Coen

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Our favorite holding period is forever. – Warren Buffett

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