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December 14, 2006
beauty and harmony
where the spirit of man comes into harmony with a harmony external to it, there is beauty.
--carleton noyes
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December 6, 2006
pursuing the beautiful
the better you come to know something you love in itself, the better you understand how it differs from everything else, how it does something that has never been done before. but the better you understand that, the more other things you need to know in order to compare them to what you love and to distinguish it from them. and the better you know those things, the more likely you are to find that some of them, too, are beautiful, which will start you all over again in an ever-widening circle of new communities and new things to say. it is a dangerous game, pursuing the beautiful. you may never be able to stop.
--excerpt from “An Essay on Beauty and Judgment” by: alexander nehamas
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December 3, 2006
when you see the truth, what are you to do?
where did i leave off? at the point that i cannot imagine a situation in which life would not be a torment; that we all have been created in order to suffer, and that we all know this and try to invent means of deceiving ourselves. but when you see the truth, what are you to do?
--from anna karenina by leo tolstoy