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Love beauty, which is God's shadow across the universe.

— Gabriela Mistral

Amarás la belleza, que es la sombra de Dios sobre el Universo.

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There is no atheist art. Even if you do not love the Creator, you will affirm him, creating in his likeness.

Little feet of children,
two tiny suffering jewels,
how can people pass
and not see you!

Now in the middle of my days I glean
this truth that has a flower's freshness:
life is the gold and sweetness of wheat,
hate is brief and love immense.

The German, Polish, or Lithuanian Jew has been deprived of the sacred right to escape and be free.

Message About the Jews (1935)

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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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