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Forster, E.M. Howards End. Edward Arnold, 1910, ch. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. London: John Danter, 1597, act 1, sc. 5.

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Shakespeare, William. "Romeo and Juliet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 1, sc. 5.

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Mann, Thomas. Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain]. S. Fischer Verlag, 1924, ch. 2.

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Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain. Everyman's Library, 2005, ch. 2.

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Yeats, William Butler. "Vacillation." The Winding Stair and Other Poems. The Macmillan Company, 1933, pt. 5, st. 2.

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Yeats, William Butler. "Vacillation." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008, pt. 5, st. 2.

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Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Random House, 1961, pt. 1, ch. 2.

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Crichton, Michael. Jurassic Park. Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.

Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter.

Roger Scruton

Beauty: A Very Short Introduction

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Scruton, Roger. Beauty: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2011, ch. 8.

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Asai, Ryoi. 浮世物語 [Tales of the Floating World]. c. 1666, bk. 1, ch. 1.

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O'Sullivan, John Louis. United States Magazine and Democratic Review. July 1845-Aug. 1845.

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Eliot, T. S. The Cocktail Party. 1949, Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, act 1, sc. 5.

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Arnold, Matthew, [published as A]. "To Marguerite." Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems. London: B. Fellowes, 1852, st. 4.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Elizabeth Appell

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Appell, Elizabeth. “Risk.” John F Kennedy University Newsletter, Jan. 1979.

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Parker, Dorothy. New Yorker. c. 25 July 1931.

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Carlyle, Thomas. "The Hero as Man of Letters." 19 May 1840, London, England, UK. Lecture.

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Chandler, Raymond. The Long Goodbye. Hamish Hamilton/Houghton Mifflin, 1953, ch. 4.

To remember everything is a condition of madness.

Brian Friel

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Friel, Brian. Translations, dir. Art O'Briain. 23 Sept. 1980,Guildhall, Derry, Northern Ireland, UK, act 3.

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Parkinson, C. Northcote. The Law of Delay: Interviews and Outerviews. John Murray, 1970, ch. 13.

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Martel, Yann. Life of Pi. Knopf Canada, 2001, ch. 7.

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.