Michelangelo Quotes

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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Youth | Realized | Sustaining | Splendour | Beauty |

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