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"A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language."
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"Then, were not summer's distillation leftA liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft,Nor it nor no remembrance what it was.But flowers distilled, though they with winter meet,Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet."
"Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror."
"Do you think I'm pretty?He regarded me with utter seriousness, like he always did. "I think you're beautiful."Beautiful?"You are so beautiful, it hurts me sometimes."
"She was so beautiful that it made my soul ache."
"Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt."
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"The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth."
"Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language."
"Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls."
"Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul."
"If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace."
"Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event."
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