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"I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow."

"Maybe, beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts.maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside."

"I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object."

"A few flat clouds folded themselves like crepes over fillings of apricot sky. Pompadours of supper-time smoke billowed from chimneys, separating into girlish pigtails as the breeze combed them out, above the slate rooftops. Chestnut blossoms, weary from having been admired all day, wore faint smiles of anticipation."

"There is nothing more beautiful than the light of a Candle and the Aroma of it's Heart."

"The eye is the jewel of the body."

"It seems to me that the pleasure one feels in a work of art is just one thing that one does not have to explain."

"Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and hold them and do them justice."

"The cat . . . is for the man who appreciates beauty as the one living force in a blind and purposeless universe."

"Beauty is truth - truth beauty - that is all Ye know on earth and all ye need to know."
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"The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works."

"Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality."

"And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes."
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