"True villains are extremely photogenic."
"Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers."
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Source: Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.250, Vintage
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