The problem is, that in some cases, the more a thing replicates, the less truly beautiful it can become. For example, Shakespeare noted "lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds." What he means is that the single lily may be beautiful, but too many lilies become garish and lose their charm. Their stink is too noxious, overpowering, too intense. The same is true of simpler things - a little lipstick may look nice, but too much of a good thing can appear garish. Blonde hair or red hair may be appealing, but here again, if it becomes too common (as one could certainly argue it has), then it is just that - too common and the dark again becomes the truly beautiful because it is rarer and less replicated. So in a way, Beauty does itself in by doing what is only in it's nature - it replicates or we replicate it, call that what you will, some would say exploit, though I wouldn't, but in our efforts to preserve beauty, we often kill it off or ruin the very uniqueness of the thing. Often, true Beauty is quiet and does not shout its arrival. It is the whisper of a beautiful woman with no make up and dressed in jeans and a tank when she walks into a room versus a woman in a gold dress with full make up and bleached hair. We may look at the second woman at first because the eye is drawn to the obvious, but with this other on our horizon, she will soon lose our interest because she is too common. She may be okay for a short-term fix of some kind, but little else. The true beauty will not announce her arrival herself - rather, her beauty will announce itself or assert itself quietly, the way the scent of the jasmine flower will eventually reach the nose.

What's more, we have to question whether or not there is such a thing as truly objective Beauty, or whether all beauty is subjective - and I can tell you right now, I'm not going to attempt to answer this question because philosophers have long studied this and nobody has really satisfactorily come up with anything that works for all people, though that said, we can be certain that Beauty has certain "qualities", read, not attributes - so we can't say what beauty looks like, we can say that the ideal of Beauty makes all people feel a similar set of sensations and behave in similar ways. The first way, I noted above is the desire to replicate and somehow capture that beauty, either for our own sake or because we feel beauty should be caught on film or caught in a painting etc, it replicates, just like our lilies replicate themselves or the mourning dove sings her coo every day. It is her nature to sing a beautiful and mournful song - so in this way, she replicates, but what really replicates it is the fact of our listening for that song every day - we listen for that song and in that way, we replay it again and again, as Scarry notes.