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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As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning,…then they fall down the curtains. – Charles Baudelaire

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I shall give you hunger, and pain, and sleepless nights. Also beauty, and satisfactions known to few, and glimpses of the heavenly life. None of these you shall have continually, and of their coming and going you shall not be foretold. – Howard Lindsay

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Its nice to just embrace the natural beauty within you. – Victoria Justice

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Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation. – Joseph Joubert

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It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as ones treasure will not win one anyones favours one rather risks finding oneself outside everyones camp… Beauty is the word that shall be our first. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

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I dont think you need religion. – Terry Jones

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When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods. – Leon Battista Alberti

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance. – Orville Wright

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Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge. – Richard Wagner

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