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Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.


Jonathan Safran Foer

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JOHN RUSKIN Always think about loyal not for beautiful,about true not for rich,because if you have your loyal an...
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"E tu ti puoi levare i tuoi?" JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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PETER CAREY A beautiful person is someone who stays true to themselves and their spirit; someone who is self-con...
HELENA CHRISTENSEN What is really beautiful must always be true.
STENDHAL I had no interest in music. But now, music means everything to me. I have no words to explain how be...
ALAN WALKER I had the pleasure of seeing a real goddess today. She was her own definition of beauty. She was mag...
LIONEL SUGGS Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you? Am I making believe...
OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II But, uncle, isn’t it possible to make other songs, new songs?” “Why make them? There are enoug...
ROMAIN ROLLAND When he understands, as few others do, something of his home that is funny, or sad, or tragic, or cr...
WILLIAM MORRIS God created all things. It's men who decide which ones are mistakes.
BEAUTIFUL CREATURES A rainbow is not afraid of showing its true colors because it knows it is beautiful inside out.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO True beauty lies deep within. No matter what you look like on the outside, if you know you are beaut...
AMY DAVIS I'm one of those people that can't get close to someone in fear of losing them
ALEXIS PAGE Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that...
WILLIAM RALPH INGE Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that ...
W. R. INGE I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs ca...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that...
SHELBY LYNNE Beautiful dreams - if the world were more beautiful they would come true - But the world is relentle...
ALFRED STIEGLITZ I collect antiques. Why? Because they're beautiful.
BRODERICK CRAWFORD When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morni...
JOHN LENNON Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
RICHARD RODGERS You're beautiful
It's true
I saw your face
In a crowded place
and I dont know what ...
JAMES BLUNT How beautiful a woman can be if kindness is her true beauty.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Love is a 'beautiful' thing but even true love can get ugly....
PRINCE HOPKINS AMACHREE Truth is beautiful, no matter what the truth is. Even if it's scary or bad. It is beauty simply beca...
AVA DELLAIRA true beauty comes from inside a person. If you feel beautiful, then you’ll look beautiful to other...
KELLY ORAM I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.
PAUL ERDőS Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II What is beauty? why do we admire it? why do we endeavor to create it? [...]
[B]eauty is any qua...
WILL DURANT Those who serve the True Guru are very beautiful; they cast off the filth of selfishness and conceit...
ATHARVA VEDA Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history;...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.
NICOLE RICHIE True friends are like diamonds - bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.
ANONYMOUS The world is truly beautiful solely in the eyes of a true philosopher.
KEDAR JOSHI I have lost my beautiful daughter. No one can believe this is true.
KAM LAO One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA That bride, who is absorbed into the True Guru, shall never become a widow. Her Husband Lord is Beau...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB A lot of actors try to sabotage other actors, and that's sad because then you're never going...
ERICA DURANCE Life can give us a number of beautiful friends; But; Only True Friends can give us a Beautiful Life.
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DELTA BURKE Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II you are not beautiful, actually my heart is beautiful. because it loves you alot without caring that...
PRASOON DWIVEDI The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stan...
ALBERT EINSTEIN The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which sta...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Life is beautiful because it doesn't last.
BRIT MARLING Your beautiful body does not mean anything about your true being
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HOWARD LEVINE True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfort...
STEVE MARABOLI There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they'...
VILLE VALO Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?
YOKO ONO The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands a...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there's nothing beautiful or literary or mys...
JASMINE WARGA I was asleep for almost ten years. And then this big goober with all these fucking weird animals mov...
AMY LANE There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for ot...
MANDY HALE Why do we live like this? Is it because it's true that ignorance is bliss?
JEM It's a sad and beautiful world.
JIM JARMUSCH Love is a clash of lightnings
PABLO NERUDA When we admire beautiful things do we ever consider how much was endured to become so beautiful...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re tr...
VERONICA ROTH Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.
THICH NHAT HANH You believe I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do no...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG I collect antiques. Why? Because they're beautiful.
BRODERICK CRAWFORD I am for true world peace and building a beautiful global garden for our children.
SUZY KASSEM You don't love a woman because she's beautiful, She is beautiful because you love her.
OLASOT If it seems too good to be true, why not make it so and make it true?
VALERIE ROSE STERRETT How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
PROVERB How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
SPANISH PROVERB How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
SPANISH PROVERB How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward
SPANISH PROVERB You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.
ANON. You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.
ANONYMOUS You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her
IVAN PANIN Birds keep singing beautiful songs, even if they have no audience.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO To make your aspiration come true, you hold high expectation of yourself & work greatly to make it t...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and...
ALBERT EINSTEIN The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and s...
ALBERT EINSTEIN This is both the happiest and saddest day of my life, ... I'm sad today because you can see what's l...
HAROLD ROBERTS You've got a beautiful country with so many beautiful people and so many beautiful things happen...
ROBBIE WILLIAMS The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes...
HANS URS VON BALTHASAR Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does n...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Beautiful words make beautiful face, beautiful manners make beautiful life.
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MITCH ALBOM Learn to save yourself and make things right. Regret nothing because even your mistakes can help you...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
SIGMUND FREUD Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home
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There was never a right time to say it.
It was always unnecessar...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that ...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Touching him was always so important to me. It was something I lived for. I never could explain why....
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Being reliable is something. Being good.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER You can't love anything more than something you miss.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER You only get to keep what you refuse to let go of.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and mor...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but ...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Anyway.
I’m not allowed to watch TV, although I am allowed to rent documentaries that are app...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on a...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way ...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER I read the first chapter of A Brief History of Time when Dad was still alive, and I got incredibly h...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER My children not only inspired me to reconsider what kind of eating animal I would be, but also shame...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER ...and when is enough proof enough?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER E allora quanta sofferenza è accettabile? È questa la base di tutto, ed è questo che ognuno di no...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits ...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Jacob wrestled with God for the blessing. He wrestled with Esau for the blessing. He wrestled with I...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER God loves the plagiarist. And so it is written, 'God created humankind in His image, in the image of...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER ...This is a kiss. It is what happens when lips are puckered and pressed against something, sometime...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER I wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the ro...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces than my heart was mad...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER I went to my grandmother, your great-great-grandmother, and asked her to write a letter. She was my ...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenl...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Two friends are ordering lunch. One says, 'I'm in the mood for a burger,' and orders it. The other s...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER A map such as that one is worth many hundreds, and as luck will have it, thousands of dollars. But m...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER At the end of my dream, Eve put the apple back on the branch. The tree went back into the ground. It...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER The letter was destroyed, but its final paragraph is inside of me. She wrote, I wish I could be a gi...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER This is the sixty-nine,” I told him,
presenting the magazine in front of him. I put my finger...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Puoi levarti anche le calze?" Gli chiedeva lei. "E i calzoni?"
"E tu ti puoi levare i tuoi?" JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER THE PROBLEM OF GOOD: WHY UNCONDITIONALLY GOOD THINGS HAPPEN TO UNCONDITIONALLY BAD PEOPLE
(SEE ...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER I will walk without noise and I will open the door in darkness and I will
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as sim...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Brod’s life was a slow realization that the world was not for her, and that for whatever reason, s...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER I have been waiting for you for so long.”
I pointed to the car. “We are searching for Trach...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER