“Ask any girl what she'd rather be than beautiful, and she'll say more beautiful.”
Quoted in Susan Horowitz: "Queens of comedy: Lucille Ball, Phyllis Diller, Carol Burnett, Joan Rivers" p. 128 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=X77jSHAkKnMC&pg=PA128&lpg=PA128&dq=%22Ask+any+girl+what+she'd+rather+be+than+beautiful,+and+she'll+say+more+beautiful.%22&source=bl&ots=AzUsYOZJ2m&sig=QQAYhtyJb5NBPdpOSJdI_ZlKmLc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2U8sT9rgAeaj0QXH-tysCA&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Ask%20any%20girl%20what%20she'd%20rather%20be%20than%20beautiful%2C%20and%20she'll%20say%20more%20beautiful.%22&f=false
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Part 10, "Messal." (A "math" is a co-ed academic/research monastery. Most of the novel takes place in maths.)
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Charlotte Salomon (1917–1943) German painter
Franziska was of somewhat sentimental disposition. <br class="br">written text with brush, in her painting JHM no. 4175 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Charlotte_Salomon#/media/File:Charlotte_Salomon_-_JHM_4175.jpg: in 'Life? or Theater..', p. 66 <br class="br">her mother committed suicide when Charlotte was still a young girl - as many in her family did, before or later <br class="br">Charlotte Salomon - Life? or Theater?
Robert Williams Buchanan (1841–1901) Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist
Artist and Model.
Context: I ask no more from mortals
Than your beautiful face implies,—
The beauty the artist beholding
Interprets and sanctifies.
Who says that men have fallen,
That life is wretched and rough?
I say, the world is lovely,
And that loveliness is enough.
So my doubting days are ended,
And the labour of life seems clear;
And life hums deeply around me,
Just like the murmur here,
And quickens the sense of living,
And shapes me for peace and storm,—
And dims my eyes with gladness
When it glides into colour and form!
“Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.”
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
“The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.”
Ned Rorem (1923–2022) American composer
[Who's Who in Contemporary Gay & Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day, ISBN 041522974X, 2001, Aldrich, Robert and Wotherspoon, Gary (eds)]
“What indeed is more beautiful than heaven, which of course contains all things of beauty.”
Nicolaus Copernicus book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
Introduction to Book 1, as quoted/translated by Edward Rosen, Nicholas Copernicus on the Revolutions (1978) ed. Jerzy Dobrzycki, Edward Rosen.
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543)