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[Beauty] is always free and adherent: free because it does not adhere to conceptual knowledge, adherent because it adheres to an interpretation of nature.

— Luigi Pareyson

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Evil must be distinguished as possible and real: in God it is present as possible, and there man finds it and realises it in history.

The problem of evil has its roots in the dark depths of human nature and in the secret recesses of man's relationship with transcendence.

God is being, goodness, truth, or the positive in general, but insofar as it is willed and chosen, victory over possible nothingness.

Evil is not the absence of being, the deprivation of good, the lack of reality, but is reality, more precisely positive reality in its negativity.

The positive choice is itself a choice of goodness, and the negative choice is itself a choice of evil.

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

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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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