Miss 2007

Beauty is a precarious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well. Often it seems to me to be an evil flower of nothingness, or else the cry of the world as it dies, or a desperate, sumptuous prayer.

EUGENE IONESCO, Present Past / Past Present

The beautiful things of the earth become more dear as they elude pursuit.

THOMAS HARDY, Desperate Remedies

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

MARGARET HUNGERFORD, Molly Bawn

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:

Its loveliness increases; it will never

Pass into nothingness.

JOHN KEATS, Endymion