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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. 903
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The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth. 2.11K
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A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its lovliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness. 1.27K
Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. 2.22K