# Relative beauty and ugliness

By [coffeetea](https://paragraph.com/@coffeetea) · 2022-06-17

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If everyone thinks of beauty as beauty, there is already ugliness;

If everyone thinks of kindness as kindness, there is already evil.

Being and non-being beget each other;

The difficult and the easy complement each other;

The long and the short shape from each other;

The high and the low prop against each other;

The voice and its echo resound with each other;

The before and the after follow each other.

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*Originally published on [coffeetea](https://paragraph.com/@coffeetea/relative-beauty-and-ugliness)*