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Quote by Walter Benjamin
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing. – Walter Benjamin

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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again. – Walter Benjamin

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Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity. – Walter Benjamin

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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. – Walter Benjamin

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Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars? – Jeb Bush

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You cant really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you. – Tadao Ando

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Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it. – Moses Mendelssohn

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Beauty

The double hundred Fowler hit in the Madras Test was an absolute beauty. – David Gower

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Beauty

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