Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
“Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.”
— Nikolai Gogol · Beauty
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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
“Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.”
— Nikolai Gogol · Beauty
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“Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.”
“I am a writer, and the duty of a writer is not only to furnish pleasant pursuits for the mind and taste: he will be held accountable if things useful to the soul are not disseminated by his works and if nothing remains after him as a precept for mankind.”
“Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.”
“They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.”
“Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him in a sort of picturesque disorder. Self-sacrifice, magnanimity in decisive moments, courage, intelligence--and with all that, a generous mixture of self-love, ambition, vanity, petty personal ticklishness, and a good many of those things which a man simply cannot do without.”
“That's the beauty of filmmaking: it's extremely humbling because you do it all over again all the time.”
“Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.”
“A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music - these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.”
“Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.”
“Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.”
“I can't live without my beauty products. I love to be in my bathroom with my candles lit, morning, noon and night. I like taking hot baths and hot showers, using my body scrubs and lotions.”