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“Have you forgotten about our fox?
The one who now had an eye for beauty, and an inclination to set it apart from other things . . .”

— Helen Oyeyemi

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More quotes by Helen Oyeyemi

“She encouraged herself to see her very small presence in the world as a good thing, a power, something that a hero might possess.”

“The general advice is always be yourself, be yourself, which only makes sense if you haven't got an attitude problem.”

“Our exchanges always seem to turn into whatever he wants them to.”

“A song called 'Earth Angel' played in her head all morning—also three trumpets and a piano.”

“I know of witches who whistle at different pitches, calling things that don't have names.”

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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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