On Envy

May 21, 2012 23:34

For Salieri - once beauty has been identified - mediocrity is anything that is less. Mediocrity, the ordinary, sets off the remarkable, and the remarkable, the achieved, exposes everything that is lesser. Beauty declares what can be, and, by its rarity, makes the contrast: the fact that most of our dealings are on a lower plateau. Most of us accept ( Read more... )

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chrryblssmninja May 29 2012, 07:26:00 UTC
I more or less agree with this quote.

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