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Quotes from On Beauty and Being Just — Elaine Scarry

born 1946 United States

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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. (p. 15)

On Beauty and Being Just (1998)

Beauty brings copies of itself into being. (p. 3)

On Beauty and Being Just (1998)

Something beautiful fills the mind yet invites the search for something beyond itself, something larger or something of the same scale with which it needs to be brought into relation. (p 21)

On Beauty and Being Just (1998)

To misstate, or even merely understate, the relation of the universities to beauty is one kind of error that can be made. A university is among the precious things that can be destroyed. (p. 8)

On Beauty and Being Just (1998)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Elaine Scarry (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.