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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

-Plato

Beauty indeed makes man enlarge his kind. In ways of physical attraction. In ways of creativity. In ways of attempting immortality. People think pursuing beauty is shallow, and in the most base ways, it is. But it is also the way to paint elements of the fantastic in our lives. If we knew how gray the world really is, we wouldn't write, or look, or love another imperfect being. It is through the splattering of these colors on the canvas that we can even begin to understand these self-portraits--the only path available to us...without becoming so colorless we sink into non-existence.

Maybe in higher dimensions of reality we can live and desire and create significance without the pursuit of beauty. But in our constraints and in that here and in this now, we live only by seeing it everywhere...and not at all if we do not.

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