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Stendhal

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Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.
3.4 · 25 votes · 140 reads
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Art and Culture
Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.
4.9 · 20 votes · 32 reads
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Government and Politics
War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view ''realistically;'' that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent - war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrif
3.5 · 61 votes · 28 reads
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Virtues
What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
4.6 · 48 votes · 51 reads
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Nature
With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character causes the disease - because it has not expressed itself. Passion moves inward, striking and blig
4.3 · 48 votes · 46 reads
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