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Sometimes something is so beautiful it brings tears you can't stop, so good it makes a smile you can't wipe away, so full of something that makes you understand so clearly, so comprehensively--it is so elegant--that all is right with the world for that moment, and you forget every worry, every wrong, every misdeed, and all regret . . . something such as the smallest you can focus on in the sunshine while the music of your heart provides the perfect background, or such as the largest like the Golden Gate Bridge seen from the Marin Headlands, or the Grand Canyon from the bottom up. Or take a Paris evening in late spring after consuming all the exquisities and you come to reside in an aperitif, some cheese, coffee, and a Gauloise while watching lovers successively pass by and cross to infinitely singular points on the Pont Neuf to kiss. Ah, life sometimes, some things, some moments catapult us out of ourselves and into eternity. It is no wonder we hunger for such moments now and everlastingly.