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Herbert Read Quotes: The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.
         

The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.


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