"Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."
-Michelangelo
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"If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.“
-Michelangelo
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