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He had always suspected that beauty was the real feminine religion, from the willingness of its devotees to submit to martyrdom for it.

— H. Beam Piper The Complete Paratime (1947)

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Politics is nothing but common action to secure more favorable living conditions.

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A planet could take pretty good care of itself, he thought, if people would only leave it alone.

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For each man the world ends when he dies.

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Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.

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“Bad luck!” Brannad Klav snorted. “That’s the standing excuse of every incompetent!”

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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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