Beauty is more alluring with a blemish.
Beauty
Faces are like assumptions: we see with them, we do not see them.
A diamond is only a rock without someone to wear it.
A writer is a prospector panning for gold in the stream of his own thoughts.
Hearing albums we own in public, we hum more passionately than at home, our complacency as owners replaced by our longing as outsiders.
Mr. Stanley’s Aphorisms and Paradoxes are outstanding examples of the long-form aphorism...
inevitably studded with discrete individual aphorisms that could easily stand on their own.
-James Geary, author of The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism
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