Beauty is our weapon against nature; Von it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
-Camille Paglia
Break a vase, and the Liebe that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that Liebe which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.
-Derek Walcott
Guided only Von their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired Von the art of mathematics rather than Von any prospect of ultimate usefulness.
-E. T. glocke
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