Beauty Quotes

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

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"To see beauty in the ordinary is to possess the secret of eternal youth."
Boris Pasternak
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"Beauty multiplies when shared, diminishes when hoarded."
Boris Pasternak
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"Beauty and truth are inseparable; one cannot exist without the other."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"We must learn to see the sacred in the ordinary before it is too late."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"The cruelty of beauty lies in its impermanence."
Anna Akhmatova
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"Beauty without meaning is merely decoration for the void."
Anna Akhmatova
"Beauty is the visible expression of the invisible."
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
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"Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder."
Maxim Gorky
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"Beauty and truth are sisters."
Maxim Gorky
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"Beauty is synonymous with strange."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"Beauty has no method; it has only moods."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"Beauty is like sugar—it spoils the appetite when consumed in excess."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart."
August Strindberg
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"Beauty emerges from chaos only when we have the patience to wait."
August Strindberg
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"Beauty fades, but character endures forever."
Henrik Ibsen
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"Beauty is the harmony between inner and outer worlds."
Henrik Ibsen
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"What is this life if we do not stop to appreciate beauty?"
Boris Pasternak
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"Beauty reveals itself to those who pay the price of attention."
Boris Pasternak
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"What a wonderful thing is the human body."
Nikolai Gogol
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"Beauty is the promise of happiness."
Nikolai Gogol
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"The beauty of life is in its unpredictability."
Nikolai Gogol
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"Man has the irrepressible urge to create beauty."
Maxim Gorky
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"In my belief, nothing that is beautiful in reality is ever a source of unhappiness."
Maxim Gorky
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"In the garden of memory, flowers bloom that no frost can kill."
Anna Akhmatova
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"I have learned that the most dangerous beauty is truth."
Anna Akhmatova
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"In the garden of my heart, weeds and roses grow together."
Anna Akhmatova
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"Beauty is the one thing that does not lead us astray, if we're properly educated."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"Beauty is dangerous like poison."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"Beauty fades, but character endures."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"Beauty is the splendor of truth."
Mikhail Lermontov