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“Beauty is single. Only ugliness is multiple, and even then its multiplicity is soon exhausted.”

Book:Les Diaboliques

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“The truth of the matter was something much more subtle and tremendous than any plain physical miracle could ever be. But never mind that. The important thing was that, when I did see the stars (riotously darting in all directions according to the caprice of their own wild natures, yet in every movement confirming the law), the whole tangled horror that had tormented me finally presented itself to me in its truth and beautiful shape. And I knew that the first, blind stage of my childhood had ended.”

Truth Law Stars Beauty Childhood Horror Miracles

Book:Odd John

Source: Odd John

“I tell you Schoonmaker she doesn't know what she has. That's the heart of it. She's like some wild creature who hasn't a clue the worth of its coat.”

Beauty Unaware

Book:Envy

Source: Envy

“When it came time to build a tabernacle, the Israelite women brought all their mirrors to Moses so he could use them to make God's building more beautiful. (Exodus 38:8.) They were far more interested in enjoying God's glory than reflecting on their own images.”

Beauty

Book:More Beautiful You: A Study in True Beauty

Source: More Beautiful You: A Study in True Beauty

“In a sense, beauty is what one chooses to feel by virtue of what one chooses to imitate and to create.”

Beauty

Author:Robert Pack

“SONG OF SUNSET ON THE RIVER A strip of water's spread in the setting sun, Half the river's emerald, half is red. I love the third night of the ninth month, The dew is like pearl; the moon like a bow.”

Earth Poetry Beauty Moon Chinese Sunset

Author:Bai Juyi

“If you see those pretty things that nature likes to show Remember all those seals that sing And leave them there to grow.”

Nature Beauty Lesson

Book:Trapper

Source: Trapper

“It is a moral failure to miss the profound beauty of the world, said the voice in her mind. Yes, she said aloud, for now she did see the sin in full.”

Sin Attention Wonder Beauty

Book:The Vaster Wilds

Source: The Vaster Wilds

“That's certainly a problem. But that's not what I was thinking of. It's just that you are so soft, so fragile. I have to mind my actions every moment that we're together so that I don't hurt you. I could kill you quite easily, Bella, simply by accident." His voice had become just a soft murmur. He moved his icy palm to rest it against my cheek. "If I was too hasty… if for one second I wasn't paying enough attention, I could reach out, meaning to touch your face, and crush your skull by mistake. You don't realize how incredibly breakable you are. I can never, never afford to lose any kind of control when I'm with you.”

Love Romance Twilight

Book:Twilight

Source: Twilight

“The dawn is my Assyria; the sun-set and moon-rise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams.”

Nature Beauty

Book:Nature

Source: Nature

“The shows of day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, and the like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality. Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.”

Nature Beauty

Book:Nature

Source: Nature

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