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Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. There may be two equally good, equally gifted, equally beautiful, but theremay never be two that love one another equally well.
Thornton WilderRead
He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music.
Mark HelprinRead
It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
Galileo GalileiRead
I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world, and to show in a vision something of the face of Ireland to any of my own people who would look where I bid them. I have therefore written down accurately and candidly much that I have heard and seen, and, except by way of commentary, nothing that I have merely imagined.
William Butler YeatsRead
There is slow growth, but it is positive slow growth. At the same time, ratios of debt-to-incomes go down. That's a beautiful deleveraging.
Ray DalioRead
As I'm traveling around, I meet many small children. And when I look at a small and think how we've harmed this beautiful planet since I was that age, I feel a kind of desperation, anger, shame. I don't know what I feel; I just don't know what the emotion is.
Jane GoodallRead
Frankly, the idea that we need to be beautiful, if you really think about it, it's odd. But if you can turn it inward and see yourself as beautiful, that's what changes the world.
Shonda RhimesRead
I never quite understand the way society decides who is beautiful and who is not. But an open face and a capacity for kindness always feel like reliable signifiers to me.
Tilda SwintonRead
I want a little black girl to pick up my book one day and see herself as the star. I want her to know that she's beautiful, and she matters, and she can have a crazy, magical adventure even if an ignorant part of the world tells her she can never be Hermione Granger.
Tomi AdeyemiRead
Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.
Germaine GreerRead
A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.
Le CorbusierRead
Love . . . is like nature, but in reverse; first it fruits, then it flowers, then it seems to wither, then it goes deep, deep down into its burrow, where no one sees it, where it is lost from sight, and ultimately people die with that secret buried inside their souls.
Edna O'BrienRead
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
Susan SontagRead
How beautiful is the family that recites the Rosary every evening.
Pope John Paul IiRead
Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay.
F. Scott FitzgeraldRead
The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.
HeraclitusRead
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
George Washington CarverRead
What is essential in love is what the French call 'amour fou.' What is that in English? Crazy love? That doesn't sound as beautiful. It's a total kind of love that not only embraces feelings, actions, but a kind of understanding of the world from the perspective of love.
Mario Vargas LlosaRead
No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse.
James JoyceRead
If you get hold of a head of hair on somebody you've never seen before, cut beautiful shapes, cut beautiful architectural angles and she walks out looking so different - I think that's masterful.
Vidal SassoonRead
The more I photograph women, the less it is about transformation. Women are beautiful. All that really matters is enhancing that.
Mario TestinoRead

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