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Enoch caught his breath at the beauty and the wonder of it — the old, hard wonder of what this thing might be and what it might be meant to do.

— Clifford D. Simak Way Station (1963)

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These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north.

City (1952)

There was so much knowledge in the galaxy and he knew so little of it, understood so little of the little that he knew.

Way Station (1963)

The wolf was smiling at him, and he had never known that a wolf could smile.

Highway of Eternity (1986)

How strange it is, he thought, how so many senseless things shape our destiny.

Way Station (1963)

He had dabbled in a thing which he had not understood. And had, furthermore, committed that greater sin of thinking that he did understand.

Way Station (1963)

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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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