I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.

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Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward. For there you have been, and there you will always long to return ― Leonardo da Vinci

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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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Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

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A bird is like an instrument working according to mathematical law, and it is in the capacity of man to reproduce such an instrument ― Leonardo da Vinci

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True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul.

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By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

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Beauty is the promise of happiness. - Edmund Burke

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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

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I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

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