We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure. ✨ Le…

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We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure. ✨ Leo Tolstoy (2016). WHAT IS ART? & WHEREIN IS TRUTH IN ART? (Meditations on Aesthetics & Literature): On the Significance of Science and Art, Shakespeare and the Drama, The Works of Guy De Maupassant, A. Stockham'sTokology, Amiel's Diary, S. T. Seménov's Peasant Stories, Stop and Think!..., p.55, e-artnow
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