Ugliness and hate and ill are here with all their contradiction and illogic; they will always be here--perhaps, God send, with lessened volume and force, but here and eternal, while beauty triumphs in its great completion--Death.
This quote acknowledges the coexistence of ugliness and beauty, emphasizing the eternal struggle between them.
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