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Even ugly people know beauty when they don't see it.

— Steve Toltz A Fraction of the Whole (2008)

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The denial of death rushes people into an early grave, and if you are not careful, they will take you with them.

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Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip.

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Cancer thrives on broken hearts; it is a vulture waiting for you to give up on human warmth.

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I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your own potential.

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The thing that makes a man go crazy isn't loneliness or suffering after all - it's being kept in a state of perpetual dread.

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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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