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Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

— Sophia Loren Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1982)

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A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.

Halliwell’s Filmgoer’s Companion (1984)

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.

The Subtlety of Emotions (2001)

My philosophy is that it's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all.

Living and Loving: Her Own Story (1979)

After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Words of Wisdom and Quotables Quotes (2007)

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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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