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Quotes About Beauty

Forse, io amo in lei la natura, la personificazione di quanto c'è di bello nella natura; ma non è che io abbia una volontà mia propria: attraverso me, c'è ad amarla non so quale forza elementare, la creazione intera; tutta la natura infonde quest'amore nell'anima mia, e mi dice: ama!
~ Leo Tolstoy
But, as always happens after death, his face had grown handsomer, more dignified—more distinguished, in short, than it had ever been in life.
~ Leo Tolstoy
She was so plain that neither of them could think of her as a rival, so they began dressing her with perfect sincerity, and with the naive and firm conviction women have that dress can make a face pretty.
~ Leo Tolstoy
All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow
~ Leo Tolstoy
All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow." Levin
~ Leo Tolstoy
Her slender bare arms and neck were not beautiful—compared to Hélène's her shoulders looked thin and her bosom undeveloped. But Hélène seemed, as it were, hardened by a varnish left by the thousands of looks that had scanned her person, while Natasha was like a girl exposed for the first time, who would have felt very much ashamed had she not been assured that this was absolutely necessary.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Este uimitor cât de r?spândit? este iluzia c? frumuse?ea echivaleaz? cu binele.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Meditations or discussions about art are the most useless pastimes known. Those who really know art know that art can speak well with its own language, and that to speak about art with words is useless. Most people who speak about art do not understand or feel real art.
~ Leo Tolstoy
She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty; But above all, she had truth.
~ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.
~ Leon Battista Alberti
La vida es siempre bella si sabemos mirarla con ojos apacibles, con luz de un alma en paz
~ Leon Degrelle
Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.
~ Leon Krier
topic: Symmetry and the Beautiful Universe [Amherst, NY: Prometheus
~ Leon M. Lederman
Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence and enjoy it to the full.
~ Leon Trotsky
If you're lucky enough to fall in love, that's one thing. Otherwise all that was ever truly beautiful to me was boyhood. It's the meal we sup on for the rest of our lives. Love puts the icing on life. But if you don't find it...you must call on your childhood memories over and over till you do.
~ Leon Uris
This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
~ Leonard Bernstein
És hiszem Keatsszel, hogy a föld költészete véget mindaddig nem lel, amíg a telet tavasz követi, és van ember, aki észleli. Hiszem, hogy ebbÅ'l a földbÅ'l olyan zene sarjad, amely forrásai természeténél fogva tonális.
~ Leonard Bernstein
And I'll dance with you in Vienna, I'll be wearing a river's disguise. The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on the dew of your thighs. And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moss. And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty, my cheap violin and my cross.
~ Leonard Cohen
I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.
~ Leonard Cohen
Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world's excuse for being ugly.
~ Leonard Cohen
He knew that hair couldn't feel; he kissed her hair.
~ Leonard Cohen
even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
~ Leonard Cohen
We are ugly but we have the music.
~ Leonard Cohen
She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
~ Leonard Cohen