Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts. – Serge Gainsbourg
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Rich mens houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty. – Margot Asquith
The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique. – Minna Antrim
We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children. – Patricia Sun
Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain. – Martha Beck
In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure. – Hermann Hankel
I have to struggle to change peoples perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that Im this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when Im absolutely not like that at all. I think Im much more outgoing and exuberant than my image. – Helena Bonham Carter
The sky was clear — remarkably clear — and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse. – Thomas Hardy