Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

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Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

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Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. ― Franz Kafka

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By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

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The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

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The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.

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I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep. ― Ann Voskamp

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You define beauty yourself, society doesn’t define your beauty. — Lady Gaga

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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

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