Beauty was a curse to be borne, not a blessing.

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I was the first person to say that beauty is a curse. This is because I see beauty as something that makes us endure pain and suffering. When we see someone beautiful, we envy them and want to be like them. We want to love them and show our love to them by buying them expensive gifts and telling them how beautiful they are.

However, this is not the right way to see beauty. The right way to see beauty is as a curse, something we must endure. The same way we must endure pain and suffering, we must also endure the pain and suffering of seeing someone beautiful.

Source: The Countess

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