The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. — Quoted

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“The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.”

Havelock Ellis · Beauty

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The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

Age

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Art

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Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

Money

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The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

Music