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"Beauty is the most dangerous weapon," he warned.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

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True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

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The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

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Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

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