A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it to possess it and give it weight in ones life. There is an urge to say I was here I saw this and it mattered to me.

A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it to possess it and give it weight in ones life. There is an urge to say I was here I saw this and it mattered to me.
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A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it to possess it and give it weight in ones life. There is an urge to say I was here I saw this and it mattered to me. Alain De Botton

A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it to possess it and give it weight in ones life. There is an urge to say I was here I saw this and it mattered to me.
Alain De Botton