He looked around at the perfectly white world, felt the wet kisses of the snowflakes, pondered hidden meanings in the pale yellow streetlights that shone in a world so whitely asleep. "Beautiful, " he whispered.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
About This Quote

A word that describes something or someone that is beautiful or has some sort of beauty about them. This quote uses the adjective "beautiful" to describe the world, the snowflakes and the yellow streetlights. The word "beautiful" is used in the context of "a perfectly white world" and "wet kisses of the snowflakes." This means that this quote tells us that this world is so white it is "beautiful." So, what does this mean? Well, if everything in this world is so white and everything is so clean, then it must be beautiful. The way that this world looks would have to be beautiful. And, as we can see, Nelson Mandela believed that this was a beautiful world.

Source: The Sirens Of Titan

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