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Venus de Milo.
To a child she is ugly.
When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness, even though, by physiologic standards, incomplete, she is beautiful.

— Charles Fort The Book of The Damned (1919)

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The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.

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I conceive of nothing, in religion, science, or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while.

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Existence is Appetite: the gnaw of being; the one attempt of all things to assimilate to some higher attempt.

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The outrageous is the reasonable, if introduced politely.

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If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the adjusting constructiveness of all other growing things.

Lo! (1931)

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