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" A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it. "
Michelangelo
Much
Beautiful
Hear
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" It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges. "
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" I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. "
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" Genius is eternal patience. "
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" Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven. "
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" Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop. "
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" From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born. "
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" It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand. "
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Only
Me
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Hand
Image
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Art
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Task
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Marbles
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Love
Live
" I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived. "
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