#beautiful thing

I try to imagine how we would live if we didn't know we were going to die. Would we live our lives differently? Less careful, maybe? Less scared? These are beautiful things to think about and build a song around. ↗

— Beth Gibbons

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For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing. ↗

— Paul Goldberger

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To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing. ↗

— Lance Henriksen

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I'm looking for a way out of here. I can't have it physically, so I'm going to have it intellectually. It was a beautiful thing to ride Seabiscuit in my imagination. And it's just fantastic to be there alongside Louie as he's breaking the NCAA mile record. People at these vigorous moments in their lives - it's my way of living vicariously. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

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The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going. ↗

— James Laughlin

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But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There's incredible acts of kindness and bravery, and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope. ↗

— Dave Matthews

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Time is a beautiful thing. It's like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later and they don't look so ugly anymore. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

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How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity! ↗

— Max Muller

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I can dance for, like, four or five hours nonstop without even drinking water. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing. ↗

— Petra Nemcova

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