beauty
beauty
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
The Kreutzer Sonata
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
Death in Venice and Other Tales
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
The Diary of a Young Girl
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.
Letters to a Young Poet
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Beauty is the illumination of your soul.
Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom