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“The secret to youth is to fill your mind with beauty! Amen”

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“I don't tolerate politics that come from anger. I want a politics derived from beauty... I don't admire politicians, but poets. (Rubem Alves, p. 189)”

Poetry Politics Beauty Anger

Book:The Struggle Is One: Voices and Visions of Liberation

Source: The Struggle Is One: Voices and Visions of Liberation

“BEL-IMPERIA: Oh let me go; for in my troubled eyes Now may'st thou read that life in passion dies. HORATIO: Oh stay a while, and I will die with thee; So shalt thou yield, and yet have conquered me.”

Sex Beauty Orgasm

Book:The Spanish Tragedy

Source: The Spanish Tragedy

“The mass depiction of the modern woman as a "beauty" is a contradiction: Where modern women are growing, moving, and expressing their individuality, as the myth has it, "beauty" is by definition inert, timeless, and generic. That this hallucination is necessary and deliberate is evident in the way "beauty" so directly contradicts women's real situation.”

Beauty Society Media

Book:The Beauty Myth

Source: The Beauty Myth

“Beauty doesn't die with the beholder; it moves on. Hiding in the shadows, afraid of the light, she flees to find another host, possessing the body like a demon in need of exorcising.”

Book:Beauty and Other Dangerous Things

Source: Beauty and Other Dangerous Things

“Why is it that beautiful women never seem to have curiosity? Is it because they know they're classical? With classical things the Lord finished the job. Ordinary ugly people know they're deficient and they go on looking for the pieces.”

Author:Penelope Gilliatt

“What beauty could be your life’s mountain peak which you could climb all the way up?”

Love Life Beauty

Book:Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

Source: Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

“La beauté séduit la chair pour obtenir la permission de passer jusqu'à l'âme.”

Beauty The Soul The Flesh

Book:La Pesanteur et la Grâce

Source: La Pesanteur et la Grâce

“It's better to have nothing,' the children were saying.”

Beauty Homelessness Poetic Fiction

Book:Housekeeping

Source: Housekeeping

“I held a brief debate with myself as to whether I should change my ordinary attire for something smarter. At last I concluded it would be a waste of labour. "Doubtless," though I, "she is some stiff old maid ; for though the daughter of Madame Reuter, she may well number upwards of forty winters; besides, if it were otherwise, if she be both young and pretty, I am not handsome, and no dressing can make me so, therefore I'll go as I am." And off I started, cursorily glancing sideways as I passed the toilet-table, surmounted by a looking-glass: a thin irregular face I saw, with sunk, dark eyes under a large, square forehead, complexion destitute of bloom or attraction; something young, but not youthful, no object to win a lady's love, no butt for the shafts of Cupid.”

Age Fiction Beauty Youth Appearance Victorian

Book:The Professor

Source: The Professor

“Nothing overdone, nothing racy, which made her all the more alluring.”

Book:Murder Suicide

Source: Murder Suicide