holdreversefullglass
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whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.
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Ağustos 2021 tarihinde katıldı
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Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.
‘We don’t like to admit it,’
‘but the idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people such as ourselves more than almost anything.’
‘Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.’
‘Death is the mother of beauty,’
‘And what is beauty?’
‘Terror.’
‘And how can we lose this maddening self, lose it entirely?
Love? …the least of us know that love is cruel and terrible master. One loses oneself for the sake of the other, but in doing so becomes enslaved and miserable to the most capricious of all the gods.’