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Elaine Scarry Quotes:

Life: b. June 30, 1946

Birthday: June 30

The generation is unceasing. Beauty, as both Plato’s Symposium and everyday life confirm, prompts the begetting of children: when the eye sees someone beautiful, the whole body wants to reproduce the person.

- Elaine Scarry

source: Elaine Scarry (2013). “On Beauty and Being Just”, p.4, Princeton University Press

topic: Beautiful, Children, Plato, Plato S, Symposium, Prompts

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