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Augustine of Hippo on Beauty

354–430

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Inasmuch as love grows in you, in so much beauty grows; for love is itself the beauty of the soul.

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

Slow was I, Lord, too slow in loving you. ... You were waiting within me while I went outside me, looking for you there, misshaping myself as I flung myself upon the shapely things you made.

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