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Beauty is the only uncreated thing you can experience apart from God.

— Barry Long Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

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It is the conscious man or woman who finds the secret of happiness and contentment; and that, surely, is the ultimate success.

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.

The only way we can ever get through to the truth is by finding out what we are not. We do that by looking, by observation.

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

The love of man and woman is the beginning of the love of God.

Love is not a feeling ~ The Interview (1995)

Love is all around you like the air and is the very breath of your being.

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

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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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