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«Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick.»
«Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can»
«Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole»
Author: Leon Battista Alberti
| About:
Beauty
| Keywords:
adjustment, impair, impaired, impairing, impairs, proportionately, subtract, subtracted, subtracting, subtracts
«Beauty and grace command the world»
«Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.»
Author: George MacDonald
| About:
Beauty,
Nature,
Sadness
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alloy, alloyed, go forth, go together, sadness
«Beauty and folly are old companions.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Beauty,
Foolishness
| Keywords:
companions
«Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Beauty
| Keywords:
confused, impression, portion, size, symmetry
«Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume»
«Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.»
Author: Jean Paul Richter
(Novelist)
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Beauty
| Keywords:
Gold and Silver, tenfold, The Magnet
«Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.»
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