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Quote by Murasaki Shikibu
Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world. -

Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world. – Murasaki Shikibu

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A box of new crayons! Now they’re all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they’ll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic. – Bill Watterson

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I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it’s at its most powerful. – A.S. Byatt

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No things could seem further apart than the doubt of grey and the decision of scarlet. Yet grey and red can mingle, as they do in the morning clouds… – G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions, “The Glory of Grey”

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