How is it that from beauty I have derived.... : Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

“ How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness?—from the covenant of peace a simile of sorrow? But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. ”

Edgar Allan Poe
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