Quote from We Were The Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates (Who knows why?)

Of course he knew beauty doesn’t exist. He hadn’t known then but he knew now. Beauty is a matter of perspective, subjectivity. Cultural prejudice. You require a human eye, a human brain, a human vocabulary. In nature, there’s nothing.

Still beauty gives comfort. Who knows why?

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