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“In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.”
— Colette, in Gigi (1945)
“Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.”
— Democritus (ca. 4 th century BCE). Tr. Kathleen Freeman, Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels, Fragmente der Vorsokratiker (1948)
“Evil and ugliness are the same thing, and dullness is the mother of both.”
— Osbert Sitwell, Wisdom : conversations with the elder wise men of our day, edited by James Nelson, Norton, New York, 1958. Quoted in Murphy, Edward F., Webster's Treasury of Relevant Quotations, Greenwich House, New York, 1983 (pg. 228).
“There are plenty of good reasons for fighting … but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. It’s that part of every man that finds all kinds of ugliness so attractive.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, in Mother Night (1961)
“Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own.”
— Dorothy West, The Wedding (1995). Anchor Books, 1996, p. 171.

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