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I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.
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poetry
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superficial-beauty
bukowski
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superficiality
classics
self
reflection
beautiful
mirror
lonely
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ugly
classic
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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.
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shallowness
visible
superficial
invisible
thought
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Oscar Wilde |
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...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.
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prejudice
superficial
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Maxim Gorky |
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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.
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pain
world
beauty
dreams
hope
and-the-mountains-echoed
plastic-surgeon
khaled-hosseini
unfair
superficial
unfairness-of-life
sorrows
cruel
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Khaled Hosseini |
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There was only one blonde in the room, and she didn't even have a tan.
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superficial
sweet-valley
tan
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Francine Pascal |
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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.
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stupidity
in-denial
superficial
racist
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Bret Easton Ellis |
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There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty -unless she is wed to something more meaningful -is always superficial
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donna-tartt
the-secret-history
superficial
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Donna Tartt |
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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.
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gloss
photograph
magazine
photo
shallow
plastic
superficial
fake
makeup
fashion
pretty
ugly
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