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"The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased."
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"Everyone wants a little bit of something beautiful."
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"A goatee is to beards what diamonds are to ornaments."
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"était tard ; ainsi qu’une médaille neuve
La pleine lune s’étalait,
Et la solennité de la nuit, comme un fleuve
Sur Paris dormant ruisselait."
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"It does not much matter that an individual loses two or three hundred pounds in buying a bad picture, but it is to be regretted that a nation should lose two or three hundred thousand in raising a ridiculous building."
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"Beauty is charm."
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"In an animal's or a plant's expression of imagination (let's leave out the rest for now, so we don't have to deal with the question of consciousness in, for example, minerals), there is always purity in the connection between need and evolution. That which is created is a response to reality and very specific, essential concerns. This then is the origin of the union between what is so and mysterious harmony-truth and beauty. The bridge between them is inspired intuition and the actions it causes. Or, imagination causes inspiration causes intuition causes beauty, which then causes imagination again."
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"Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language."
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"Maybe, beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts.maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside."
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"One thing, however, did become clear to him-why so many perfect works of art did not please him at all, why they were almost hateful and boring to him, in spite of a certain undeniable beauty. Workshops, churches, and palaces were full of these fatal works of art; he had even helped with a few himself. They were deeply disappointing because they aroused the desire for the highest and did not fulfill it. They lacked the most essential thing-mystery. That was what dreams and truly great works of art had in common: mystery."
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"They wore their strange beauty like war paint."
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"What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim."
Pleasure
"The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one."
Love
"Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it."
Fear
"His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world."
Knowledge
"Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts."
Thought
"Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money."
Friendship
"There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy."
People
"A fool and his words are soon parted."
Fool
"A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood."
Truth
"The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last."
Economy
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