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Quote by Thornton Wilder
It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world see

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness. – Thornton Wilder

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The test of an adventure is that when youre in the middle of it, you say to yourself, Oh, now Ive got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home. And the sign that somethings wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure. – Thornton Wilder

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Adventure
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We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind. – Thornton Wilder

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Death
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Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. – Thornton Wilder

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Faith
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What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn! – Logan Pearsall Smith

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Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think thats the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings. – Janelle Monae

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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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Beauty

Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. Youve got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe Ive got my Freud mixed up. Its just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit. – Vera Farmiga

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