Into the blue

What is near at hand is infinitely distant. It is not the light from without that fails, but that from within.
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The perfect painting is where the human figure has disappeared. Just wave upon wave of blueness.
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Meno:
How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?
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Rebecca Solnit:

The world is blue at its edges and in its depths. This is the light that got lost..the blue of the land that seems to be dissolving into the sky, is a deeper, dreamier, melancholy blue, the blue at the farthest reaches of the places where you see for miles, the blue of distance. This light that does not reach us, does not travel the whole distance, the light that gets lost, gives us the beauty of the world, so much of which is the colour blue.
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Into the Blue again.
Silent water
Same as it ever was,
Same as it ever was.
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