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You see something faraway & it looks beautiful & very seductive; but as you go closer you realize it's actually bugs crawling over a corpse.

— Frances Bean Cobain

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Humans are an embarrassing species w/ small glimmers of beauty that seep through the veil of bigotry&stupidity, every once in a small while.

Halloween is so close I can practically taste the children's tears.

Attempting to be a people pleaser is a fruitless task so, fuck it.

Constantly battling with sabretooth tigers and fluid drained lighters.

New York is like my dream city. That's where I'm going to live, I'm convinced of it.

High School Musical Starring Frances Bean Cobain (2008)

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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

Democritus Freeman (1948)

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

William Wordsworth

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?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

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

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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