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Beauty is ephemeral.

Beauty depends on distinctions.  Without distinctions it would be impossible to experience the harmony between this and this. Without distinctions there wouldn’t be a coherent whole.

But even as beauty pulls distinct bits together into a unity, those bits change (because everything changes).  The particular whole which was created in one moment falls apart, to be replaced in the next moment by the next whole.

So… in its very nature, beauty is a momentary thing.

(And yet: something can go on and on being beautiful, inexhaustibly beautiful, like the stars in the sky.)