Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

Douglas Adams

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Beauty Gardens Disenchanted world

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Douglas Adams

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Novel

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Science fiction

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Language

English

Time

1979 1970s 20th century

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Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Pan Books, 1979, ch. 16.

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There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree, and does not rest until it has found one. Then, singing among the savage branches, it impales itself upon the longest, sharpest spine. And, dying, it rises above its own agony to out-carol the lark and the nightingale. One superlative song, existence the price. But the whole world stills to listen, and God in His heaven smiles. For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain.

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Colleen McCullough
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The Thorn Birds
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Novel
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Time
1977 1970s 20th century
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McCullough, Colleen. The Thorn Birds. Harper & Row, 1977, epigraph.

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Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter.

Roger Scruton

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Beauty: A Very Short Introduction
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Scruton, Roger. Beauty: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2011, ch. 8.

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E.T. Phone home.

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E.T.
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Directed by Steven Spielberg, Amblin Entertainment, 1982.

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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?

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1962 1960s 20th century
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De Gaulle, Charles. Quoted in Les Mots du General, written by Ernest Mignon. Arthème Fayard, 1962.