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A young woman stood before the railing, speaking to the reception clerk. Her slender body seemed out of all scale in relation to a normal human body; ...more

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Beauty is a sense of harmony.

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I am done with the monster of "We," the word of serfdom, of plunder, of misery, falsehood and shame.And now I see the face of god, and I raise this go...more

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For our face and body were beautiful. Our face was not like the faces of our brothers, for we felt not pity when looking upon it. Our body was not lik...more

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The power of the sky can be made to do men's bidding. There are no limits to its secrets and its might, and it can be made to grant us anything if we ...more

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It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth. It is my ears which hear, and the hearing of my ears gives its song to t...more

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I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to earn my love, my brothers must do more than to have b...more

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For the word "We" must never be spoken, save by one's choice and as a second thought. This word must never be placed first within man's soul, else it ...more

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We alone, of the thousands who walk this earth, we alone in this hour are doing a work which has no purpose save that we wish to do it.

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The only pride of her workday was not that it had been lived, but that it had been survived. It was wrong, she thought, it was viciously wrong that on...more

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Happiness was the responsibility you dreaded, it required the kind of rational discipline you did not value yourself enough to assume - and the anxiou...more

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Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty.

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Andrei, did you like the opera?""Not particularly.""Andrei, do you see what you're missing?""I don't think I do, Kira. It's all rather silly. And usel...more