Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov. Open (№ 21922)

In women, high, pure beauty is definitely mind. Stupid beauty - not beauty. Look at the stupid beauty, look deeply into every line of her face, in her smile. Look - the beauty of her gradually turn into a amazing disgrace. Imagination can take a minute to get involved, but the mind and sense not satisfied with such beauty: her place in the harem. Beauty, full of mind - an extraordinary power, it moves the world, she takes the history, is building a destiny; it is, overtly or covertly, present in every event. Beauty and grace is a kind of incarnation of the mind. This fool can never be beautiful, and ugly, but intelligent woman often glitters with beauty. The beauty about which I speak does not matter: it is not only blazing heat of passionate desires: it first of all awakens in the person of the person, moves the thought, morale, fertilizes the creative power of genius, if she is at the height of his dignity, does not spend its rays on a trifle, not Granit purity...