| Feb 23, 2006 @ 6:44 PM |
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sciurusniger
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“You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered.”
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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| Feb 23, 2006 @ 10:26 PM |
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7eternity
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This one definitely makes me think that someone isn't worth my caring and/or love. That happens a lot out there with both versions of the story. Empty beauty is actually nothing like a rose to my standpoint. On the contrary, a good-looking person who doesn't give much is actually ugly and little whether woman or man. I choose heart over beauty, and that goes for both friends and intimate partners.
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| Feb 23, 2006 @ 10:29 PM |
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spongebob777
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I'm with 7 on this one. I don't know how many times I've met drop dead gorgeous women who became downright ugly as I got to know them.
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| Feb 23, 2006 @ 10:35 PM |
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DwainP50
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In empty beauty solid vacuum cries
And space does color palettes gray and black.
The stars reveal the secrets of the wise
Even against the dark of the Coal Sack.
Fly! Fly free unto a distant star.
And cry! Cry high for me with all your heart.
For you I would climb ev’ry mountain far
To find a great title for this work of art.
But poetic license be what it may,
A stream of nothing births a golden pool
In which reflections show the coming day.
Reflections betray, revealing a fool.
So what was this sad sonnet all about?
We don't, we can't, we won't now know, so pout!
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| Feb 23, 2006 @ 11:58 PM |
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Angel54214
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When "sci" used this beautiful poem, it made me think of myself in a way. I see myself as that one black-eyed-susan in the midst of all those roses. Out of place, not beautiful, kinda stand out in a crowd of shyness. That kind of thought.
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| Feb 24, 2006 @ 2:08 PM |
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SylvanDreams
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Like 7 and Spongey, I feel personality has a lot to do with how one's beauty is perceived.
In kinda the opposite example of what they have posted, I have met people I thought were, well, maybe not ugly, but not particularly good looking.... yet when I got to know them better, I did think they were good looking. Their personalities definitely enhanced their looks/beauty.
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| Feb 24, 2006 @ 2:22 PM |
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Pete73052
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I like this one:
"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction. "
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| Feb 25, 2006 @ 1:51 PM |
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sciurusniger
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You, Beatrice, have apparently not read enough of them.
But that is, of course, entirely beside the point and the apparent lack of reading comprehension the giveaway to your identity. If you were as well-read as you'd bragged in your previously-banned profile, you would have at least recognized the source of this quote.
But, again and alas, you have managed live down to our expectations. With apologies to the Bard, a pill by any other name remains as bitter.
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| Feb 25, 2006 @ 1:57 PM |
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Angel54214
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. ~Albert Einstein ~
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| Feb 25, 2006 @ 2:07 PM |
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TiNkErGrRrRrR
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Khalil Gibran, (1883 - 1931)
Beauty is not in the face;
beauty is a light in the heart.
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| Feb 25, 2006 @ 3:06 PM |
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AngelLight
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You are beautiful but you are empty because you do not yet know or recognize who you truly are at your center.
The one who could die for you might be the one who could show you that your emptiness may be your most subtle yet profound gift......for within your emptiness lies the possibilty that you may be filled with something new.
As you are filled with or are open to something new, you die to old ways, you die to self, making room for a new understanding and experience of yourself.
Perhaps the only one who could die for you must in fact be you.
[Edited on 2/25/2006 3:14 PM]
[Edited on 2/25/2006 3:15 PM]
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| Feb 25, 2006 @ 3:57 PM |
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Angel54214
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Empty beauty awaits the mystery
A one nurturer in the shadow-
Can it be lured and embraced?
To wonder it's unknown grandeur
Is revealed in the transforming
Remnant of filled beauty.
~Angel~
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