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“Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.”
― Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays
― Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays
“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.”
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“Boredom: the desire for desires.”
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“Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.”
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“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
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