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Truth and beauty ... yield themselves only to whoever surrenders to them—as to a rescuer.

— Vilhelm Ekelund The Second Light (1986)

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Whose is the world? Whose is thought? His who loves them.

The Second Light (1986)

The egotism of wisdom: to burn all that is pettily, painfully, stupidly selfish in the fire of love of spiritual vision and freedom.

The Second Light (1986)

Everything great has already been said. But the person who knows how to stimulate his soul with the magnificence of it is always something new.

The Second Light (1986)

What has been postponed by reason of road and effort is well postponed.

The Second Light (1986)

The Jesuit principle: withdrawal from the world—in order to act on the world—was frequently also the principle of genius.

The Second Light (1986)

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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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