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The sea is a memory. It is mesmerising. Its beauty is intolerable. What it buries is vaster than what it reveals.

— Gina Apostol Insurrecto (2018)

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Our multiple languages are our form of existence, deep and mired in Filipino reality.

I write in English because your country raped mine.

Citizenship to me is not a real thing, but art is. But it's the mirage that kills.

We never see ourselves as others see us. Even in the mirror, we see ourselves backward.

The essence of a country like the Philippines is that it seems to exist in translation—a series of textual mediations must be unraveled in order to reveal who or what it is.

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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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