Beauty Quotes

What is beautiful? These quotes go beyond appearances to explore wonder, aesthetics, and awe.

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"Beauty exists in the space between words."
Stéphane Mallarmé
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"Beauty is the shadow cast by truth."
Stéphane Mallarmé
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"Mystery is the heart of beauty."
Stéphane Mallarmé
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"Beauty requires the absence of obviousness."
Stéphane Mallarmé
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"Beauty is the presence of absence."
Stéphane Mallarmé
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"Modesty is the art of drawing attention to everything except yourself."
Molière
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"Beauty without goodness is like a rose without fragrance."
Molière
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"Beauty that fades is merely a shadow of true beauty."
Pierre Corneille
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"Beauty is a terrible and awful thing; it is terrible because it has no cause and no purpose."
Arthur Rimbaud
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"Beauty exists not in things but in the space between them."
Arthur Rimbaud
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"Beauty is that which makes us forget ourselves."
Arthur Rimbaud
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"Beauty exists in all things, even in decay."
Paul Verlaine
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"The beauty of life lies in its brevity."
Paul Verlaine
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"Beauty fades, but virtue endures forever"
Pierre Corneille
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"Beauty fades, but the memory of beauty endures."
Jean Racine
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"Beauty without virtue is like a rose without fragrance."
Jean Racine
"The beautiful is always strange, never convenient or useful."
Charles Baudelaire
"The beautiful is always bizarre; without this deviation from the natural norm, there is no beauty."
Charles Baudelaire
"The most lamentable thing about the conduct of mankind is that it destroys beauty."
Charles Baudelaire
"To know beauty is to possess a secret knowledge."
Charles Baudelaire
"The beautiful souls are those who do not rebel against their nature but perfect it."
Charles Baudelaire
"I am fond of beauty; I hate vulgarity."
Charles Baudelaire
"Beauty is the promise of happiness."
Charles Baudelaire
"The beauty of a moment lies in its impermanence."
Charles Baudelaire
"A moment of perfect beauty is worth a lifetime of ordinary existence."
Charles Baudelaire
"The world is beautiful precisely because it is ephemeral."
Charles Baudelaire
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"Beauty lies in the space between what is said and what is unsaid."
Stéphane Mallarmé
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"Beauty demands sacrifice; grace demands surrender."
Stéphane Mallarmé
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"To create beauty is to participate in divine work."
Stéphane Mallarmé
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"Beauty awakens the spirit that mere knowledge cannot touch."
Stéphane Mallarmé