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And isn't it better really to leave things only hinted at?


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Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.



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The heart of mine is only one, it cannot be known by anybody but myself.



Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.

Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.



The older we get the more we seem to think that everything was better in the past.

The older we get the more we seem to think that everything was better in the past.



Yet for better or worse we love things that bear the marks of grime, soot, and weather, and we love the colors and the sheen that call to mind the past that made them.

Yet for better or worse we love things that bear the marks of grime, soot, and weather, and we love the colors and the sheen that call to mind the past that made them.



For a woman who lived in the dark it was enough if she had a faint, white face -a full body was unnecessary.

For a woman who lived in the dark it was enough if she had a faint, white face -a full body was unnecessary.



We delight in the mere sight of the delicate glow of fading rays clinging to the surface of a dusky wall, there to live out what little life remains to them.

We delight in the mere sight of the delicate glow of fading rays clinging to the surface of a dusky wall, there to live out what little life remains to them.



Each worm to his taste; some prefer to eat nettles.

Each worm to his taste; some prefer to eat nettles.



We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.

We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.





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