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What is persecuted above all, and more than people's opinions, is their ability to create and propagate beauty.

— Tahir devout

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Books constitute the safest refuge against this world of horror.

They have understood the danger in words, all the words they cannot manage to domesticate and anesthetize.

You do not easily part with utopia; it is an acid that cuts holes in the opacity of dogma.

Words, put end to end, bring doubt and change.

As long as music can transport the spirit, painting can make the core bloom with a rapture of colors, and poetry can make the heart pound with rebellion and hope, they will have gained nothing.

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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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