Things are beautiful or ugly only in time and space. The new man's vision being liberated from these two factors, all is unified in one unique beauty.
Piet Mondrian
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T.T.T
W...
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Thou knowest not
Is in a sense
Omniscience.
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of particl...
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by getting excited and vexed.
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& GREAT
He that lets
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leaves the...
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Some people cower
and wince and shrink,
owing to fear of<...
PIET HEIN It's not under control yet.
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a thing you do
now or never -
which do you?
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