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Closer, Changi lost its beauty and became what it was — an obscene forbidding prison.

— James Clavell King Rat (1962)

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The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world — and the most dangerous.

The Fly (1958)

What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death?

Shōgun (1975)

The more I know, the more sure I am I know so little. The eternal paradox.

The Fly (1958)

I'm going to work hard not to have any wrong thoughts!

The Children's Story (1982)

Just a moment, children — what does "pledge" mean?

The Children's Story (1982)

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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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