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Quote by Charles Baudelaire
The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is d

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present. – Charles Baudelaire

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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate good is always the product of an art. – Charles Baudelaire

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Charles Baudelaire
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. – Victor Hugo

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For me beauty is valued more than anything – the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity. – Oscar Niemeyer

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A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement. – Paul D. Boyer

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Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music. – John Philip Sousa

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