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Quote by Georg Brandes
But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse o

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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Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior. – Georg Brandes

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But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year. – Georg Brandes

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An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion. – Charles Baudelaire

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The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them. – Ninon de LEnclos

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What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty. – Hu Shih

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If beauty isnt genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning. – Peter York

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