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Explore more quotes by Saint Augustine

"My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is."

"Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point."
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"Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused."

"By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower."

"Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."

"Sculpture is the art of the intelligence."

"The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back."
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