We delight in the mere sight of the delicate glow of fading rays clinging to the surface of … - Junichiro Tanizaki

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Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.

Junichiro Tanizaki

We delight in the mere sight of the delicate glow of fading rays clinging to the surface of a dusky wall, there to live out what little life remains to them.

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The heart of mine is only one, it cannot be known by anybody but myself.

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Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.

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The older we get the more we seem to think that everything was better in the past.

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And isn't it better really to leave things only hinted at?

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Yet for better or worse we love things that bear the marks of grime, soot, and weather, and we love the colors and the sheen that call to mind the past that made them.

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How long should you try? Until.

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