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How beautiful, if sorrow had not made
Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self.
(John Keats (1795-1821), British poet. Hyperion (l. 35-36). . .
The Complete Poems [John Keats]. John Barnard, ed. (3d ed., 1988) Penguin.)
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For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.
(Thomas Mann (1875-1955), German author, critic. Originally published as Der Zauberberg, Fischer (1924). The Magic Mountain, ch. 4, p. 159, trans. by Helen T. Lowe-Porter, The Modern Library, McGraw-Hill (1955).
Settembrini's credo.)
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Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.
(Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Austrian writer. Trans. by Harry Zohn, originally published in Beim Wort genommen (1955). Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths, University of Chicago Press (1990).)
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It is of no use to a woman to be young without being beautiful, or to be beautiful without being young.
(François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), French writer, moralist. repr. F.A. Stokes Co., New York (c. 1930). Moral Maxims and Reflections, no. 500 (1665-1678), trans. London (1706).)
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All heiresses are beautiful.
(John Dryden (1631-1700), British poet, dramatist, critic. Albanat, in King Arthur, act 1, sc. 1 (1691).)
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The good is the beautiful.
(Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Lysis, 216 D....)
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Back home the black women are all beautiful
(Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934), U.S. poet. W. W. (l. 1). . .
New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford University Press.)
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That's beautiful.
(Quentin Tarantino, U.S. screenwriter and director, and Roger Avary. Pumpkin (Tim Roth), Pulp Fiction, comment upon seeing the mysterious glowing interior of hit man Jules' (Samuel Jackson) briefcase (1994).)
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The beautiful uncut hair of graves.
(Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. "Song of Myself," sct. 6, Leaves of Grass (1855).)
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This coast crying out for tragedy like all beautiful places,
(Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962), U.S. poet. Apology for Bad Dreams (l. 21). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.)
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