“ I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use. ”
- Edward Hopper- Copy
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“ It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field. ”
- Tori Amos- Copy
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“ Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text. ”
- Walter Benjamin- Copy
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“ Ceremony was but devised at first to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, recanting goodness, sorry ere 'Tis shown; but where there is true friendship, there needs none. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good, a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly, a flower that dies when it begins to bud, a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ I have discovered that when we least care to admit it, we feel more confused than thankful, more caught than called, more worried than gracious. In humble moments when we can no longer gloss over the roughness of life, gratitude has a way of pushing out the real soreness of feeling cheated or inadequate to the rugged realities of the world… ”
- Patrick J. Malone S.J.- Copy
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“ "Every man has his price." This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow… ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ The Christian feast, the Eucharist, plumbs the very depths of death. It is not just a matter of pious discourse and entertainment, of some kind of religious beautification, spreading a pious gloss on the world; it plumbs the very depths of existence, which it call death… what the tradition sums up in the sentence: The Eucharist is a sacrifice, the presentation of Jesus Christ's sacrifice on the Cross. ”
- Joseph Ratzinger- Copy
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“ If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he can't go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking — one sport you shouldn't have to reserve a time and a court for. ”
- Edward Hoagland- Copy
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