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Miguel de Cervantes on Beauty

1547–1616 Spain

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All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.

It is a prerogative of beauty to always be respected.

The reason for the unreason with which you treat reason, so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.

Beauty has this power, that in an instant, a moment, it brings with it the desire of whoever sees and knows it, and when it reveals or promises some way of reaching and enjoying it, with powerful fervor it sets fire to the soul of whoever contemplates it, just like the means whereby dry prepared gunpowder is easily lit by any spark that touches it.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Miguel de Cervantes (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.