"Nothing is quite beautiful alone; nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace."
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"The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual."
"The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs."
"The concept of the Web is of universal readership."
"Religion [is] the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity"
"Out of Mahat comes universal egoism."
"This ego - the less there is of it, the nearer I am to that which I really am: the universal body."
"I think I'm making music that's pretty universal."
"There is universal substance which is divine substance because where else can it be?"
"There is only one universal passion fear."
"Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue."
"In all my travels the thing that has impressed me the most is the universal brotherhood of man-what there is of it."
"What is the universal? The single case. What is the particular? Millions of cases."
"Suffering is universal."
"The regional voice is the universal voice."
"I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal."