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Beauty is a splendour that must detach itself from those who possess it without them noticing and without returning to them.

— Jean Guitton

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More quotes by Jean Guitton

Unlike Calvino, you bring the soul into the designs of merciful predestination without any element of anguish.

Generals do not fight with the fear of the troops, they prefer to keep them busy.

In the spiritual life, to grow means to simplify and simplify oneself, to become closer to uncreated and ineffable simplicity.

Love always envelops us: it is we, with our attitude towards it, who transform it into fire or light.

For Teresa, the way of Mary is a way of faith, without ecstasy, without miracles, even without words.

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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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