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" Kant described beauty as a feeling of ungraspability: this is why the beauty experience is beyond concept. "

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" Since appearance can't be peeled decisively from the reality of a thing, attunement is a living, dynamic relation with another being. "

" Losing a fantasy is much harder than losing a reality. "

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" The waste products in Earth's crust are also the human in this expanded, spectral sense. One's garbage doesn't go 'away' - it just goes somewhere else. "

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