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Now comes the pain of truth, to whom 'tis pain;
O folly! for to bear all naked truths,
And to envisage circumstance, all calm,
That is the top of sovereignty Mark well.

— John Keats Hyperion: A Fragment (1819)

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"Beauty is truth, truth beauty," — that is all
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