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  • Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

    -William Blake
      Songs of Experience,'The Tyger'.

  •    Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another.

    - George Herbert
    'Man', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously,1633).

  • La syme  trie, c'est l'ennui, et l'ennui est le fond me"  me du deuil. Le de  sespoir ba"  ille. Symmetry isboredomand boredom isthe foundation of grief. Despair yawns.

    -Victor Marie Hugo
      Les Mise  rables, vol.2, bk.4, ch.1.

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