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True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.


Yukio Mishima

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LORD GREVILLE Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
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OSCAR WILDE The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True featu...
LORD SHAFTESBURY Truth unveiled is as harmful as the sickness that overpowers all efficacious medications.
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JOHN CLEESE There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
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BRENT SCOWCROFT The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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LAUREN HINDS I think confidence is a true form of beauty.
BECKY G The mirror is the worst judge of true beauty
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STEVE PAVLINA True beauty is rare, and seldom recognized by the one who possesses it.
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OLASOT Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.
LAETITIA CASTA I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.
ALEXANDER ALEKHINE This is the perfect example that things are continuing to move. And something finally gave way.
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