"Perfect beauty implies perfect simplicity, a quality that at first sight does not arouse the emotions which we feel before gigantic works, objects whose very disproportion constitutes an element of beauty."
Eugène Delacroix

January 1, 1970

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7 September 1854 (p. 252)

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