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

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of
perception resembles
more than anything else that celestial source from
which we all are come. ~Michelangelo

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven. ~Michelangelo

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course. ~Michelangelo

From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born. ~Michelangelo

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