“Man enjoys living on the edge of his dreams and neglects the real things of the world which are so beautiful. The ignorant and indifferent destroy beautiful things merely by looking at the marble. Things that remake the soul of him who understands them.” MenWorldRealSoulDreamBeautifulEnjoyEdgesIgnorantNeglectIndifferentBeautiful ThingsReal ThingsMarbleLiving OnRemakesLiving On The Edge Author:Auguste Rodin
“Sex as something beautiful may soon disappear. Once it was a knife so finely honed the edge was invisible until it was touched and then it cut deep. Now it is so blunt that it merely bruises and leaves ugly marks.” MayBeautifulSexCuttingMarkEdgesUglyDisappearInvisibleTouchedKnivesBluntBruisesSomething Beautiful Book:A life on film Source: A life on film
“The center of the chessboard is a magnet, which pulls to itself all the pieces. Therefore the most beautiful and amazing moves, for me, are those with which a piece, counteracting the gravitational force of the center, suddenly fly to the edge of the board.” BeautifulMovingForcePiecesEdgesBoardsMagnet Author:Ashot Nadanian
“I just wanted to be who I was, which was like so many other girls I knew. We grew up in the city, had a hard edge and obstacles to overcome, but we were still young and beautiful. I didn't want to be all dressed up, all made up - I wanted to be myself, which hadn't been done before.” WantMadeStillsHardDoneWantedBeautifulYoungGirlCitiesGrewGrew UpOvercomingEdgesObstaclesDressed UpOther GirlYoung And Beautiful Author:Alicia Keys
“Pompeii, especially, with its grand murals and its flourishing gardens haunted by the dark shadow of Vesuvius, has always suggested uncomfortable parallels with our contemporary world, especially here in Southern California, where the sunlit life also turns out to have dark shadows in which failure and death lurk at the edge of consciousness. Now in these times, we have even closer parallels with those ancient, beautiful, affluent people living the good life on the verge of annihilation.” PeopleWorldBeautifulTurnsDarkConsciousnessShadowGardenAncientEdgesContemporaryCaliforniaUncomfortableGood LifeSouthernParallelsVergeFlourishingAnnihilationAffluentSouthern CaliforniaPompeiiMuralLiving The Good Life Author:Eleanor Antin