No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.
Jean ToomerRead
Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you?
Interpretation
Beauty is subjective and can cause pain, challenging the conventional idea of what is truly beautiful.
Jean Toomer's quote provokes thought on the nature of beauty and its potential to inflict harm. It suggests that beauty is not an absolute quality but rather a perception that can have negative consequences, thus pushing us to reconsider our definitions and attachments to beauty in the context of our emotional well-being.
In practice
In a discussion on art and its impact, this quote can highlight the intersection of beauty and emotional experience.
No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.
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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
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I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything. Objects don't exist for me except in so far as a rapport exists between them and myself. When one attains this harmony, one reaches a sort of intellectual non-existence, what I can only describe as a sense of peace, which makes everything possible and right. Life then becomes a perpetual revelation. That is true poetry.
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
To give a causal explanation of an event means to deduce a statement which describes it, using as premises of the deduction one or more universal laws, together with certain singular statements, the initial conditions ... We have thus two different kinds of statement, both of which are necessary ingredients of a complete causal explanation.
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