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The body expresses our very being. The striving for beauty is inborn among the Aryan.

— Baldur von Schirach

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Power is what spoils people. Yes, it seems to me that the seeking after power is the great danger and the great corruptor of mankind.

Faust, the Ninth Symphony, and the will of Adolf Hitler are eternal youth and know neither time nor transience.

I read world literature and I read French romances in the originals. I had quite a profound knowledge - no, that sounds conceited, but I did have a profound interest in everything spiritual.

He who serves our Führer, Adolf Hitler, serves Germany, and he who serves Germany, serves God.

A socialist and anti-capitalist attitude is the most salient characteristic of the Young National Socialist Germany.

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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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