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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

Edgar Allan Poe
Beauty, Beautiful, Intense
Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson (1984). “Essays and Reviews”, p.78, Library of America
That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.