“Beauty doesn't have to beanything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart's Twenty-third Piano Concerto?”

—  Douglas Adams, book The Salmon of Doubt

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English writer and humorist 1952–2001

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