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The teacher is still basking in the beauty of his own creativity, when he realises that his only listeners are the walls. ("Two Libraries")

— Esther Kreitman Yikhes (1949)

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The alleyway exuded an air of Yom Kippur - beautiful, sad and eerily quiet.

Yikhes (1949)

People make their way through the library like a dense forest, not knowing where it begins or where it will end. ("Two Libraries")

Yikhes (1949)

The air downstairs in the cellar was grey and foggy. It smelled of mould and the chill of graves.

Yikhes (1949)

The earth lay there like a corpse prepared for an autopsy, its innards wet and glistening. Sewage pipes were sticking out everywhere, like intestines falling out of an open belly.

Yikhes (1949)

The small front garden was ablaze with colours and bursting with birdsong. The bright flowers of late summer were talking to each other intimately in their own, wordless language.

Yikhes (1949)

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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

Democritus Freeman (1948)

True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

William Wordsworth

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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