Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

Douglas Adams

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Topic

Beauty Gardens Disenchanted world

Author

Douglas Adams

Source

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Medium

Novel

Genre

Science fiction

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1979 1970s 20th century

Occupation

Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Pan Books, 1979, ch. 16.

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Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

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The Spanish Inquisition Monty Python's Flying Circus
Medium
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Genre
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Language
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Time
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"The Spanish Inquisition." Monty Python's Flying Circus, written by Graham Chapman and John Cleese and Eric Idle, directed by Ian MacNaughton, season 2, episode 2, BBC, 1970.

Another quote about Beauty

Beauty can pierce one like a pain.

Thomas Mann

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Power of beauty Beauty

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Source
Buddenbrooks
Medium
Novel
Statement Type
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Language
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Time
1901 1900s 20th century
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Original Citation

Mann, Thomas. Buddenbrooks. Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag, 1901, pt. 11, ch. 2.

Current Citation

Mann, Thomas. Buddenbrooks. Dover Publications, 2020, pt. 11, ch. 2.

Another quote from the following genre Science fiction

The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history.

Robert A. Heinlein

Time Enough for Love

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God and man Nature of God Religion

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Robert A. Heinlein
Source
Time Enough for Love
Medium
Novel
Genre
Science fiction
Language
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Time
1973 1970s 20th century
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Citation

Heinlein, Robert A. "Intermission." Time Enough for Love. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1973.

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O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name,
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.

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Juliet Capulet

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William Shakespeare
Genre
Tragedy (play)
Statement Type
Question
Language
English
Time
1597 1590s 16th century
Era
European Renaissance
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Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. London: John Danter, 1597, act 2, sc. 2.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Romeo and Juliet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 2.