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But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty.

— Georg Brandes

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.

— James Dean

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

— David Hume

I had long ago become a creation, a public image made to be consumed, piled on top of a precarious shell of a little boy wanting to be loved.

— Rob Lowe

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

— Albert Camus

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

— George Bancroft

All of us, at some moment, have had a vision of our existence as something unique, untransferable and very precious. This revelation almost always takes place during adolescence.

— Octavio Paz

Every day that I live, I try to find the beauty in things.

— Octavia Spencer

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

— Eugene Ionesco

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.

— Arthur Erickson

Eventually, my eyes were opened, and I really understood nature. I learned to love at the same time.

— Claude Monet

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