“Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.”
Source: The Bluest Eye
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“Beauty is something animal, the beautiful is something celestial.”

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in The Alchemist of Happiness

Source: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 5

“One must be something in order to do something.”
Conversations with Eckermann (20 October 1828)

“Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.”
As quoted in Wisdom for Our Time (1961) by James Nelson