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You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.

Madame de Stael
Beautiful, Distance, Sublime
"Corinne, or Italy". Book by Madame de Stael, 1807.
You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.