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“The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“Our aim is to make the world more beautiful than it was when we came into it. It can be done. You can do it--love yourself”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House

“I see the cliffs, glaciers, torrents, valleys of Switzerland - I mark the long winters and the isolation.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“The best literary device I got from my people was their talk, rough, earthy, salty speech that starts dancing on me sometimes, crying on me other times whether I like it or not.”
― Máirtín Ó Cadhain