Mir’s Reviews > Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art > Status Update
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Reviewers have a very ordinary counterpart in the rest of life: friends who want me to get acquainted with someone they believe I will appreciate.
...If everything turns out as all of us have hoped and, once we've met, I find you and your company enjoyable, then, far from resting on that verdict I shall want to get to know you better.
— Sep 02, 2021 04:49PM
...If everything turns out as all of us have hoped and, once we've met, I find you and your company enjoyable, then, far from resting on that verdict I shall want to get to know you better.
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Mir
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...serious difference between describing a face as attractive and actually being attracted by it. Beauty mobilizes the emotions and it always looks to the future: these detached ratings do not.
— Sep 03, 2021 10:07AM
Mir
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no account of why something is beautiful can ever be enough to prove that others should agree.
— Sep 02, 2021 04:28PM
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The real opposition is not between the works of art one admires and those one detests, but between those that stand out enough to be noticed at all and those that just pass by.
— Sep 02, 2021 04:27PM
