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“She had been dragged in the most humiliating of all dusts, the dust reserved for older women who let themselves be approached, on amorous lines, by boys... It had all been pure vanity, all just a wish, in these waning days of hers, still to feel power, still to have the assurance of her beauty and its effects.”

Feels Stills Wish Lines Beauty Boys Effects Pure Dust Vanity Assurance Reserved Humiliating Her Beauty Older Women Amorous

Author:Elizabeth von Arnim

“What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.”

“What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.”

Source: The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems

“I sacrifice to the God of Beauty — the impulse to beauty in nature. Here are flowers. Here is wine spilled on the floor. I will burn incense & myrhh. I will kneel & strike my breast & touch the dust with my forehead. I will I will! Only do not forsake me, Oh God of beauty.”

Beauty Strikes Dust Breasts Foreheads Forsake

Author:Theodore Dreiser

“Beauty never slumbers; All is in her name; But the rose remembers The dust from which it came.”

Beautiful Remember Names Beauty Rose Dust Slumber Being Beautiful

Book:Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems

Source: Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems

“Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour; Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair; Dust hath closed Helen's eye.”

Eye Beautiful Young Fall Beauty Air Flower Fairs Died Dust Queens Wrinkles Brightness Being Beautiful Helen

Author:Thomas Nashe

“Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away; in short, everything passes with marvelous rapidity; beautiful Helen of Troy has become a toothless skull, then a handful of dust, then nothing.”

Beautiful Beauty Eternal Reflection Passing Passings Dust Marvelous Handful Skulls Fugitive Helen Toothless Helen Of Troy

Author:Eliphas Levi

“Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.”

Beauty Dust Everlasting

Book:Complete Poems

Source: Complete Poems