Place Oneself Quotes by Elaine Scarry

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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.
• This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse…
• Permitted to inhabit neither the realm of the ideal nor the realm of the real, to be neither aspiration nor companion, beauty…
• Beauty brings copies of itself into being.
• Beauty always takes place in the particular.
• The generation is unceasing. Beauty, as both Plato’s Symposium and everyday life confirm, prompts the begetting of children: when the eye sees…
• When we come upon beautiful things they act like small tears in the surface of the world that pull us through to…
• To misstate, or even merely understate, the relation of the universities to beauty is one kind of error that can be made.…
• Beauty always takes place in the particular, and if there are no particulars, the chances of seeing it go down

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