Beauty

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Directed by David Hand, Walt Disney Productions, 1937.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

Molly Bawn

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Hungerford, Margaret Wolfe. Molly Bawn. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz/Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1878.

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American Beauty. Directed by Sam Mendes, Jinks/Cohen Company, 1999.

Beauty can pierce one like a pain.

Thomas Mann

Buddenbrooks

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Mann, Thomas. Buddenbrooks. Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag, 1901, pt. 11, ch. 2.

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Mann, Thomas. Buddenbrooks. Dover Publications, 2020, pt. 11, ch. 2.

Beauty will save the world.

Adelaida

Quoted in The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. "Идиот [The Idiot]." The Russian Messenger, 1868–69.

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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. The Idiot, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volkhonsky. Vintage, 2003, pt. 1, ch. 6.

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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. "Братья Карамазовы [The Brothers Karamazov]." The Russian Messenger, Jan. 1879 - Nov. 1880. Serial.

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Dostoevsky, Feodor. The Brothers Karamazov, translated by David McDuff. Penguin Classics, 2003.

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Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1891, ch. 20.

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Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray, edited by Robert Mighall. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 20.

Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter.

Roger Scruton

Beauty: A Very Short Introduction

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Scruton, Roger. Beauty: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2011, ch. 8.

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Wolf, Naomi. The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women. Chatto & Windus, 1990.

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Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. London: John Danter, 1597, act 3, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "Romeo and Juliet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 2.

There’s a lot of beauty in ordinary things. Isn’t that kind of the point?

Pam Beesly

The Office

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"Finale." The Office, written by Greg Daniels and Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, directed by Ken Kwapis, season 9, episode 23, Deedle-Dee Productions and Shine America and Universal Television, 2013.

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Picture of Dorian Gray." Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Philadelphia, July 1890, ch. 1.

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Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray, edited by Robert Mighall. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 1.

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Blake, William. "Proverbs of Hell." The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. c. 1790.

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Blake, William. "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell." The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, edited by David V. Erdman. University of California Press, 2008.

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Kerouac, Jack. The Dharma Bums. Viking Press, 1958, ch. 5.

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Hume, David. "Of the Standard of Taste." Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary. Edinburgh: A. Kincaid, 1758, pt. 1, no. 23.

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Hume, David. "Of the Standard of Taste." Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary: Volumes 1 and 2, edited by Tom L. Beauchamp and Mark A Box. Oxford University Press, 2022, pt. 1, no. 23.

Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.

Khaled Hosseini

And the Mountains Echoed

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Hosseini, Khaled. And The Mountains Echoed. Riverhead Books, 2013.

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Donne, John. "Elegy II: The Anagram." Elegies, edited by E. K. Chambers. Lawrence & Bullen, 1896, I. 27.

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Donne, John. "Elegy: The Anagram." Selected Poems. Penguin Classics, 2007, I. 27.

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Caddyshack. Directed by Harold Ramis, Orion Pictures, 1980.

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Burns, Robert. Will Ye Go and Marry Katie? c. 1764.

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Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Pan Books, 1979, ch. 16.