Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty. - Junichiro Tanizaki - Quotesmemo.com

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Perhaps the old fogies in the blogosphere get that way because, well, we stop taking the whole megillah so seriously. And we can't take it seriously because, well, this isn't our primary means of employment and never will be. Once the blogosphere is run by sufficient numbers of people who are paid to blog, us enlightened amateurs just look semi-pro.

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Junichiro Tanizaki

Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.

Beauty, Shadow, Shadows, Would Be

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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.

Color, Colors, Past, Sheen, Soot, Weather

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