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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

Other quotes by Thornton Wilder

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole. – Thornton Wilder

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Happiness
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Thornton Wilder
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Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. – Thornton Wilder

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work
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But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life – namely, Beauty. – Georg Brandes

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Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But its also the only gift that does not keep on giving. – Paulina Porizkova

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Beauty

There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea. – Gustav Stickley

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Beauty

Im still figuring out why people would want to look at me. Maybe its generic beauty, but its weird to be valued for something I was born with. – Josie Maran

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Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men and his religion… was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society. – William Robertson Smith

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People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster. – James Baldwin

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