Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.
Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.
He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it. And in spite of this he felt that then, when his love was stronger, he could, if he had greatly wished it, have torn that love out of his heart; but now when as at that moment it seemed to him he felt no love for her, he knew that what bound him to her could not be broken.
He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it
But the princess had never seen the beautiful expression of her eyes; the expression that came into them when she was not thinking of herself. As is the case with everyone, her face assumed an affected, unnatural, ugly expression as soon as she looked in the looking glass.
It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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