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Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.

America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.

Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.

People want to be happy, so they don't want to feel as though they're mired in this world of ugliness. I think that if people can recognize that you can actually help and change that ugliness, then you'll feel a lot better about yourself as well, and that does create a certain amount of happiness.

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

Only ugliness is obscene.

People wrote the most beautiful things during the ugliest times.