superficial

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7a2464e	I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.	appearance beautiful beauty bukowski classic classics loneliness lonely mirror people poem poetry reflection self self-esteem soul superficial superficial-beauty superficiality ugly	Charles Bukowski
2aef816	People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.	invisible shallowness superficial thought visible	Oscar Wilde
196d9d6	...the more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life. And we, wrapped round in rags of our virtues, and regarding others through the mist of our self-sufficiency, and persuaded of our universal impeccability, do not understand this.	prejudice superficial	Maxim Gorky
783cfd6	Many years later when I began training as a plastic surgeon, I understood something that I had not that day in the kitchen arguing for Thalia to leave Tinos for the boarding school. I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that. My patients knew this. They saw that much of what they were, would be, or could be hinged on the symmetry of their bone structure, the space between their eyes, their chin length, the tip projection of their nose, whether they had an ideal nasofrontal angle or not. Beauty is an enormous unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.	and-the-mountains-echoed beauty cruel dreams hope khaled-hosseini pain plastic-surgeon sorrows superficial unfair unfairness-of-life world	Khaled Hosseini
7724eae	There was only one blonde in the room, and she didn't even have a tan.	superficial sweet-valley tan	Francine Pascal
2657b1a	This is laid down with a groove funkier and blacker than anything Prince of Michael Jackson--or any other black artist of the recent years for that matter--has come up with.	in-denial racist stupidity superficial	Bret Easton Ellis
75dba3c	There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty -unless she is wed to something more meaningful -is always superficial	donna-tartt superficial the-secret-history	Donna Tartt
7c6eb50	Why hoard away so many back-issues of People Magazine? Fashion magazines are just empty promises. You can go bankrupt blowing all your cash on expensive beauty products, but the only way you'll ever look just like the people on those glossy front covers is if you know how to use computer editing software for photographs. Besides, people who think they are ugly, are never really all that ugly anyway. People who think they are pretty, are rarely ever all that pretty.	fake fashion gloss magazine makeup photo photograph plastic pretty shallow superficial ugly	Rebecca McNutt

I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.

appearance beautiful beauty bukowski classic classics loneliness lonely mirror people poem poetry reflection self self-esteem soul superficial superficial-beauty superficiality ugly

Charles Bukowski

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People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

invisible shallowness superficial thought visible

Oscar Wilde

196d9d6

...the more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life. And we, wrapped round in rags of our virtues, and regarding others through the mist of our self-sufficiency, and persuaded of our universal impeccability, do not understand this.

prejudice superficial

Maxim Gorky

783cfd6

Many years later when I began training as a plastic surgeon, I understood something that I had not that day in the kitchen arguing for Thalia to leave Tinos for the boarding school. I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that. My patients knew this. They saw that much of what they were, would be, or could be hinged on the symmetry of their bone structure, the space between their eyes, their chin length, the tip projection of their nose, whether they had an ideal nasofrontal angle or not. Beauty is an enormous unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.

and-the-mountains-echoed beauty cruel dreams hope khaled-hosseini pain plastic-surgeon sorrows superficial unfair unfairness-of-life world

Khaled Hosseini

7724eae

There was only one blonde in the room, and she didn't even have a tan.

superficial sweet-valley tan

Francine Pascal

2657b1a

This is laid down with a groove funkier and blacker than anything Prince of Michael Jackson--or any other black artist of the recent years for that matter--has come up with.

in-denial racist stupidity superficial

Bret Easton Ellis

75dba3c

There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty -unless she is wed to something more meaningful -is always superficial

donna-tartt superficial the-secret-history

Donna Tartt

7c6eb50

Why hoard away so many back-issues of People Magazine? Fashion magazines are just empty promises. You can go bankrupt blowing all your cash on expensive beauty products, but the only way you'll ever look just like the people on those glossy front covers is if you know how to use computer editing software for photographs. Besides, people who think they are ugly, are never really all that ugly anyway. People who think they are pretty, are rarely ever all that pretty.

fake fashion gloss magazine makeup photo photograph plastic pretty shallow superficial ugly

Rebecca McNutt