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“The strange, unbeautiful face beautiful in its ugliness; the perfect, beautiful face ugly in its perfection.”

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Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“Below the incandescent stars / below the incandescent fruit, / the strange experience of beauty; / its existence is too much; / it tears one to pieces / and each fresh wave of consciousness / is poison.”

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Book:Observations: Poems

Source: Observations: Poems

“Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.”

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Author:King Hussein I

“Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable - should persist after the beauty is gone.”

Should Beauty Gone Strange Rate Vanity Persist Accompany

Author:Elizabeth von Arnim

“But aren't many gardens beautiful because they are imperfect?...aren't the strange, new flowers that arise by mistake or misadventure as pleasing as the well-tended and planned?”

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Author:Libba Bray

“Soon the child’s clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions, and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of the ego. Not until years later does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn. The sun glints through the pines and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise. After that day, we become seekers.”

Source: Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982

“Life is so full of unpredictable beauty and strange surprises. Sometimes that beauty is too much for me to handle. Do you know that feeling? When something is just too beautiful? When someone says something or writes something or plays something that moves you to the point of tears, maybe even changes you.”

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Author:Mark Oliver Everett

“I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!”

Source: What the woman lived: selected letters of Louise Bogan, 1920-1970

“The other day I was down by the Hudson River, and I see two nuns in full habit rollerblading down the street holding hands. And I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I get it. The world is surreal and beautiful. And everything is fine.'”

“Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.”

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Book:The Moon and Sixpence

Source: The Moon and Sixpence

“Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.”

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Author:Liv Tyler

“Physical beauty is such a strange thing.”

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Author:Jock Sturges

“When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful.”

People Looks Beautiful Beauty Strange Complicated

Author:Khalil Gibran

“What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.”

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Author:Hu Shih

“What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease, of joy or sorrow. There are times in our lives when we seem to go singing on our way, and when the beauty of the world sets itself like a quiet harmony to the song we uplift.”

“They wore their strange beauty like war paint.”

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Book:The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown