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Love lent me wings; my path was like a stair;
A lamp unto my feet, that sun was given;
And death was safety and great joy to find;
But dying now, I shall not climb to Heaven.

— Michelangelo

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Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.

The hand that follows intellect can achieve.

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

The stone unhewn and cold
Becomes a living mould,
The more the marble wastes
The more the statue grows.

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