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    Supports→A truly beautiful work of art must intimate the beauty of soul rather than bodily beauty.

    When we perceive represented beauty, a soul peers through the beauty — indicating that genuine beauty reveals soul, not body.

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    Furthermore, all ordinary sensuous pleasures are also momentary: “All sensible joys are only for the first glance” (“First Grove,” p. 134). The only way for an essentially static art to overcome the transitory nature of both what it depicts and of ordinary pleasures is by picking a beautiful moment which is as it were exempt from the actual transitoriness of an object’s history in real nature and our pleasure in which also does not fade like other pleasures do (“First Grove,” p. 137). In other w

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