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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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There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them. – Charles Baudelaire

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Thought
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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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Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter. – David Byrne

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I had a lot of resentment for a while toward Kim Novak. But I dont mind her anymore. Shes okay. Weve become friends. I even asked her before this trip for some beauty tips. – Kim Novak

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The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. – George Santayana

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Suddenly life has new meaning to me, theres beauty up above and things we never take notice of, you wake up suddenly youre in love. – Billy Ocean

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