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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotio...more

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No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes

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The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

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One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you...more

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It seems comfortable to sink down on a sofa in a corner, to look, to listen. Then it happens that two figures standing with their backs against the wi...more