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‘The Shepherd’s Dream, from ‘Paradise Lost’’, Henry Fuseli, 1793

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Sky at sunset, Jamaica, West Indies - Frederic Edwin Church (1865)

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Walking with the Wind, Abbas Kiarostami (translated by Michael Beard)

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Jean-Louis Hamon - Hiver (The Four Seasons), 1850.

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The Ushiku Daibutsu statue. Ushiku, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. It is 390 feet tall

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Study of Flowers by Leonardo da Vinci

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the author's barely disguised longing for a kinder world

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—light snow, silence, the empty streets, the fog, thrilling cold-so much beauty. Like breathing pure oxygen.

Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980

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“Love in its essence is spiritual fire.”

— Emmanuel Swedenborg

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“The early morning is lovely. I like to feel that I am in harmony with nature;”

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Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry featured in “A Passionate Apprentice,”

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Heraclides Anchiades