“It was ugly, but then ugly objects as a general rule are the bravest.”
“The ugliness at the heart of beauty. Is there always ugliness, do you suppose? Even when the object is very, very beautiful?”
“No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly”
“Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.”
“I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object.”
“He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is her life.”