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May 8, 2007
art is a more sublime life
Art is, after all, a more sublime life. It delights more deeply, it consumes more swiftly. It carves the traces of the imaginary, intellectual adventures into the features of its servant, and despite the monastic stillness of his outward life, it eventually brings about a fussiness and overrefinement, a weariness and nervous curiosity such as can scarcely evolve from a lifetime of dissolute passions and pleasures.
Thomas Mann - Death in Venice
Posted by amin at May 8, 2007 1:11 PM