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Page 261
... BEAUTY STANDS in a better case . For many years I thought that it was beauty alone that gave significance to life and that the only purpose that could be assigned to the teeming generations that succeed one another on the face of the ...
... BEAUTY STANDS in a better case . For many years I thought that it was beauty alone that gave significance to life and that the only purpose that could be assigned to the teeming generations that succeed one another on the face of the ...
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... beauty was like the summit of a mountain peak ; when you had reached it there was nothing to do but to come down again . Perfection is a trifle dull . It is not the least of life's ironies that this , which we all aim at , is better not ...
... beauty was like the summit of a mountain peak ; when you had reached it there was nothing to do but to come down again . Perfection is a trifle dull . It is not the least of life's ironies that this , which we all aim at , is better not ...
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... beauty is relative to the needs of a particular generation , and that to examine the things we con- sider beautiful for qualities of absolute beauty is futile . If beauty is one of the values that give life significance it is something ...
... beauty is relative to the needs of a particular generation , and that to examine the things we con- sider beautiful for qualities of absolute beauty is futile . If beauty is one of the values that give life significance it is something ...
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