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“Attention is the natural prayer of the soul.”
Malebranche
"Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it."
Mary Oliver
Elaine Scarry writes that “beauty is sometimes disparaged on the ground that it causes a contagion of imitation, as when a legion of people begin to style themselves after a particular movie starlet, but this is just an imperfect version of a deeply beneficent momentum toward replication.”
Elaine Scarry writes in On Beauty and Being Just that it’s characteristic of beauty to compel us to reproduce what we see.
