To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

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It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.- Oscar Wilde

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What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!

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And all of a sudden I began to understand his strangeness that made people shrug and mock; his dreaminess, his love of solitude, his silent manner. Now I understood why he sat on the look-out hill of an evening and why he spent a night by himself on the riverbank, why he constantly hearkened to sounds others could not hear and why his eyes would suddenly gleam and his drawn eyebrows twitch. He was a man deeply in love. I felt it was not simply a love for another person, it was somehow an uncommon, expansive love for life and earth. He had kept this love within himself, in his music, in his very being. A person with no feeling, no matter how good his voice, could never have sung like that.

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Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

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Beauty is a whore, I like money better. ― Michael Cunningham

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All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

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You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful. ― Amy Bloom

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That's one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million myself. That's a huge advantage. I must tell you, that's a huge advantage over the other candidates. -Donald Trump

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