“Beauty is not so much a quality of the object beheld, as an effect in him who beholds it.”
— Baruch Spinoza, “Letter to Hugo Boxel” (1674)
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“Beauty is not so much a quality of the object beheld, as an effect in him who beholds it.”
— Baruch Spinoza, “Letter to Hugo Boxel” (1674)
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