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• There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough.

  Josh Billings

  Quality, Ugly, Enough

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• We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.

  Wendell Berry

  Tasks, Nevertheless, Whole

  Wendell Berry (2012). “It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture & Other Essays”, p.27, Counterpoint Press

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• I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.

  Otto Dix

  Beautiful, Obsession, Obsessed

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• Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use.

  Edmund Burke

  Opposites, Perfect, Ugly

  Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.125

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• There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

  H. G. Wells

  Engineering, Bridges, Iron

  H. G. Wells (2016). “A Modern Utopia”, p.79, H. G. Wells

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• The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot.

  Homer

  Eye, Men, Feet

  Homer (2016). “The Iliad”, p.32, Homer

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• If I hadn't been told I was garbage, I wouldn't have learned how to show people I'm talented. And if everyone had always laughed at my jokes, I wouldn't have figured out how to be so funny. If they hadn't told me I was ugly, I never would have searched for my beauty. And if they hadn't tried to break me down, I wouldn't know that I'm unbreakable.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Funny, Motivational, Beauty

  "Gabourey Sidibe makes inspirational speech at Ms. Foundation gala" by Alison Rowley, www.digitalspy.com. May 2, 2014.

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• When the eye fails to find beauty-alias solace-it commands the body to create it, or, failing that, adjusts itself to perceive virtue in ugliness.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Eye, Body, Failing

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• Lord Chesterfield designated ugly women as the third sex; how shall we place ugly men.

  Anna Cora Mowatt

  Sex, Men, Ugly Man

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• Beauty is, in some way, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages... a beautiful object must always follow certain rules. A beautiful nose shouldn't be longer than that or shorter than that, on the contrary, an ugly nose can be as long as the one of Pinocchio, or as big as the trunk of an elephant, or like the beak of an eagle, and so ugliness is unpredictable, and offers an infinite range of possibility. Beauty is finite, ugliness is infinite like God.

  Umberto Eco

  Beautiful, Eagles, Elephants

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• From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

  Andrei Platonov

  Soul, World, Grows

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• It is because every one tinder Heaven recognizes beauty as beauty that the idea of ugliness exists.

  Laozi

  Beauty, Ideas, Heaven

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

  Goldwin Smith

  Ugly Things, America, Pretentious

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

  Jean Rostand

  Beauty, Art, Being Beautiful

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Men, Justice

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• Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Tree, Too Late, May

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.

  Imelda Marcos

  Hate, Allergic, Knows

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• Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Perfect, Consoling, Awe

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1833). “The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Collected by Thomas Moore ... A New Edition ... With a Biographical Sketch”, p.66

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• Nothing is irredeemably ugly but sin.

  Honore de Balzac

  Ugly, Sin

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• Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

  Ouida

  Kind, Magician, Familiarity

  Ouida (1890*). “Pascarel. Princess Napraxine”

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• Ugliness without tact is horrible.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Horrible, Tact

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Claude Mitchell Simpson, William Charvat, Ohio State Center for Textual Studies (1972). “The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: The American notebooks”

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• The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

  Elie Wiesel

  Opposites, I Hate My Life, Apathy

  US News & World Report, en.wikiquote.org. October 27, 1986.

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• The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funny Relationship, Secret Love, Being Nice

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.476, Рипол Классик

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• My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to convince the world that it is ugly, sick and hypocritical.

  George Grosz

  Art, Mean, Imperfect World

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• There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.

  Boris Vian

  Love, Music, Beautiful

  Boris Vian (2001). “I spit on your graves”, Canongate Books

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