Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it. (Sigmund Freud)

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

Sigmund Freud

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