it is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
leo tolstoy the kreutzer sonata (1889)
the reason for the unreason with which you treat reason, so weakens my reason that with reason i complain of your beauty.
miguel de cervantes don quixote de la mancha (ch.1 pt.1)
remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
john ruskin the stones of venice
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I always thought that was Steinbeck...
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