Beauty is our weapon against nature; par it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
Camille Paglia

Break a vase, and the l’amour that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that l’amour which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.
Derek Walcott

Guided only par their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired par the art of mathematics rather than par any prospect of ultimate usefulness.
E. T. cloche, bell

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