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Injury is the thing every exhausting piece of strategy and every single weapon is designed to bring into being: it is not something inadvertently produced on the way to producing something else but is the relentless object of all military…

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“When one goes on to find "better", or "higher", or "truer", or "more enduring", or "more widely agreed upon" forms of beauty, what happens to our regard for the less good, less high, less true, less universal instances? Simone Weil says, "He who has gone farther, to the very beauty of the world itself, does not love them any less…

The generation is unceasing. Beauty, as both Plato’s Symposium and everyday life confirm, prompts the begetting of children: when the eye sees someone beautiful,…

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This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education.…

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“Matisse never hoped to save lives. But he repeatedly said that he wanted to make paintings so serenely beautiful that when one came upon…

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Beauty always takes place in the particular, and if there are no particulars, the chances of seeing it go down

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“The material world constrain us, often with gret beneficence, to see each person and thing in its time and place, its historical context. But…

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Permitted to inhabit neither the realm of the ideal nor the realm of the real, to be neither aspiration nor companion, beauty comes to…

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Beauty always takes place in the particular.

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How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.

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Beauty brings copies of itself into being.

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“Our desire for beauty is likely to outlast its object because, as Kant once observed, unlike all other pleasures, the pleasure we take in…

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“Beauty as a “greeting”. At the moment one comes into the presence of something beautiful, it greets you. It lifts away from the neutral…

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