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  • Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, upon a winter's day, how beautiful the shadows are! Alas! It is the nature of their kind to be so. The loveliest things in life... are but shadows; and they come and go, and change and fade away, as rapidly as these.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Nature Quotes
  • It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, quite aside from all other requirements, need to be a little sad before buildings can properly touch us.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Appreciation Quotes
  • But when the door shuts on us, all that vanishes. The shell-like covering which our souls have excreted to house themselves, to make for themselves a shape distinct from others, is broken, and there is left of all these wrinkles and roughnesses a central oyster of perceptiveness, an enormous eye. How beautiful a street is in winter!
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Eye Quotes