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I normally don't do requests. Unless, of course, I have been asked to do so.

She was like some kind of Energizer Bunny nonstop bitch machine...She needed three more husbands, so we could all take shifts listening to her.

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

Do we need to have another discussion about this?" he asked the boys, as they limped around the room wincing and rubbing heir butts.

The moon, plump as a merchant's wife, swam behind clouds, wearying of the chase.

Le suicide n'est qu'une solution individuelle; pas socialiste par conséquent.

No one wants to get too close to a madwoman. Or men who have monkeys for pets.

I think the only remotely interesting drug was acid. I had a slightly peculiar attitude towards it I think. Just about everything about hippydom I hated.

Be the consequence of finding inspiration not rent-a-storage for one.

I know that by what I write cannot change the wrong world, but I can change the wrong attitude of the world toward me.

Utility is the true criterion of beauty.

The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.

Cinderella is not only an iconic character when it comes to beauty, grace and fairytale love, but also shoes.

Disharmony that comes from circumstances that are valid has tension, poignancy, quality, and beauty.

Beauty is only the start of bearable terror.

The virtue of pride, which was once the beauty of mankind, has given place to that fount of ugliness, Christian humility.

The pure heart is a spotless mirror in which images of infinite beauty are reflected.

The spectacular sparkle of set-apart femininity is found through absolute abandonment to the Author of all true beauty.

Beauty hath no lustre save when it gleameth through the crystal web that purity's fine fingers weave for it.

A beauty neither of fine colour nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance.

Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving.