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XAIPE (1950)
“I have them completely in hand here, they dare not take a step without first consulting me.”
Adolf Eichmann (1906–1962) German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer
Letter to Herbert Hagen about the Jewish community in Vienna (1938), as quoted in Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer by Bettina Stangneth (2015).
“I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.”
Janet Fitch book White Oleander
Source: White Oleander
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
Leo Tolstoy book The Kreutzer Sonata
Variant: What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
Source: The Kreutzer Sonata
“I want to be untouchable and beautiful and completely dead inside.”
Francesca Lia Block (1962) American children's writer
Source: Baby Be-Bop
“Beauty, brains, and a complete psycho. My dream girl.”
Rene Balcer (1954) screenwriter, producer and director
Det. Mike Logan in Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
“True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally complete the incomplete.”
Kakuzo Okakura book The Book of Tea
Source: The Book of Tea
Aristide Maillol (1861–1944) sculptor from France
remark to his biographer Judith Cladel (1939 - 1944); as quoted in Dictionary of artists’ models, Jill Berk Jiminez, Taylor and Francis 2001, p. 550
“Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.”
John Galsworthy (1867–1933) English novelist and playwright
Saint's Progress (1919)
