"Every person in order to respect himself has to see the world as beautiful or good or acceptable."

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“A person is separate from all other things and together with all other things. To understand opposites in a self, the meaning of together and separate must be seen .”

“Children are really desperate to see the world as pleasing; and their desperateness is part of a wise hope.”

“The world should be owned by the people living in it. Every person should be seen as living in a world truly his. All persons should be seen as living in a world truly theirs.”

“Aesthetics is the one fundamental means a person has of liking himself.”

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“Poetry, like Art, is the oneness of the permanent opposites in reality as seen by an individual.”

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