#ugliness

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However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and colors his voice. The stupidest man will often, under the stress of passion, achieve heights of eloquence, in thought if not in language, and seem to move in some luminous sphere. Goriot's voice and gesture had at this moment the power of communication that characterizes the great actor. Are not our finer feelings the poems of the human will?


Honoré de Balzac


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Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.


P.G. Wodehouse


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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.


Ouida


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It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.


Thornton Wilder


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I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.


Salvador Dali


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