A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself; …

Aldous Huxley
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A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself; but, for the creatures of habit that we are, its very novelty tends to make it illegible, at any rate to begin with.
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