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― The Delicacy and Strength of Lace
― The Delicacy and Strength of Lace
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“I have found that, to make a contented slave,” writes Douglass “it is necessary to make a thoughtless one…He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery; he must be made to feel that slavery is right; and he can be brought to that only when he ceases to be a man.”
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“All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.”
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“Nobody who is alert to beauty, therefore, is without the concept of redemption—of a final transcendence of mortal disorder into a ‘kingdom of ends’. In an age of declining faith art bears enduring witness to the spiritual hunger and immortal longings of our species. Hence aesthetic education matters more today than at any previous period in history.”
― Beauty: A Very Short Introduction
― Beauty: A Very Short Introduction
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