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Wharton was captivated by her sweet face, and tried to make her understand his theory that the merit of a painting was not so much in what it explained as in what it suggested.

— Henry Adams Esther: A Novel (1884)

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I know of nothing useful in life except what is beautiful or creates beauty.

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We never despised the world or its opinions, we only failed to find out its existence.

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