Elaine Scarry Quotes

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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. Adjustments
• 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. One… Basic
• Permitted to inhabit neither the realm of the ideal nor the realm of the real, to be neither aspiration nor companion, beauty comes to us… Aspiration
• Beauty brings copies of itself into being. Beauty
• Beauty always takes place in the particular. Always Takes
• 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, the… Beautiful
• When we come upon beautiful things they act like small tears in the surface of the world that pull us through to some vaster space. Act
• To misstate, or even merely understate, the relation of the universities to beauty is one kind of error that can be made. A university is… Among
• Beauty always takes place in the particular, and if there are no particulars, the chances of seeing it go down Always Takes

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