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«The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.»
«It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.»
«The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all.»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
| Keywords:
familiarity, fills, offers, pseudo, risking, strangeness, The Thrills, tourist, two weeks, weeks
«It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will is a shapeless world.»
«There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
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Beauty
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excellent, proportion, proportioned, strangeness
«At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
clothed, denseness, henceforth, hills, illusory, inhuman, outline, outlines, Outlining, Paradise Lost, remote, strangeness
«To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death....»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Death
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adopt, deprive, frequent, strangeness
«If from the top of a long cold barren hill I hear the distant whistle of a thrush which seems to come up from some warm woody shelter beyond the edge of the hill, this sound coming faint over the rocks with a mingled feeling of strangeness and joy, the idea of the place about me, and the imaginary one beyond will all be combined together in such a manner in my mind as to become inseparable.»
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