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You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

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What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their bea...more

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It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value.

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It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.

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[Donald] Keene observed [in a book entitled The Pleasures of Japanese Literature, 1988] that the Japanese sense of beauty has long sharply differed fr...more

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A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I was...more

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To live in modernity--an era contemporaneous with the triumph of the news--is to be constantly reminded that, thanks to science and technology, change...more