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BW2/3 Posted 20 years ago
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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

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It would be nice of you to put the full context and the link, which I have to do myself in order to do the job properly ---------- Lord Henry stretched himself out on the divan and laughed. " "Too much of yourself in it! Upon my word, Basil, I didn't know you were so vain; and I really can't see any resemblance between you, with your rugged strong face and your coal-black hair, and this young Adonis, who looks as if he was made out of ivory and rose-leaves.

— Marius Hancu

  • It would be nice of you to put the full context and the link, which I have to do myself in order to do the job properly ---------- Lord Henry stretched himself out on the divan and laughed.
  • " "Too much of yourself in it!
  • Upon my word, Basil, I didn't know you were so vain; and I really can't see any resemblance between you, with your rugged strong face and your coal-black hair, and this young Adonis, who looks as if he was made out of ivory and rose-leaves.
  • Why, my dear Basil, he is a Narcissus, and you-- well, of course you have an intellectual expression and all that.
  • But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.
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It would be nice of you to put the full context and the link, which I have to do myself in order to do the job properlyEmotion: sad

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This guy (Lord Henry) pretends that beauty and the intelligence don't go well together and that the moment you start to think, your face is distorted and it becomes ugly.

Also, that the intelligent people are generally ugly (for the same or other reasons).
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Thank you very much Marius Hancu.

I would love to put down the context if I thought the sentence was not enough to know the meaning itself.
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Also, that beauty is something natural and given (perhaps even godlike), which shouldn't be disturbed by any stress, such as the (mortal/pedestrian) effort to think.
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