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“Beauty doesn't have to be about anything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart's Twenty-third Piano Concerto about?”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: beauty, beauty-in-literature, beauty-in-nature, wodehouse

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“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
― Mark Twain

tags: americans, geography, war

7542 likes

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: albert-einstein, future, war, wisdom

5167 likes

“But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark.”
― Updike, John, Rabbit, Run

tags: beauty-in-literature, imagery, inspirational, love, lovers, metaphor, suggestive

47 likes

“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: art, inspirational

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