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Exuberance is better than taste.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Beauty is the lover's gift.

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.

Beauty is a fragile gift.

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

There is a role and function for beauty in our time.