“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”
John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn
Source: Ode on a Grecian Urn and Other Poems
“Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.”
Source: The Humans
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