Life is not the means for the achievement of an esthetic ideal of perfection; on the contrary, the work is an ethical symbol of life. (Thomas Mann)

Life is not the means for the achievement of an esthetic ideal of perfection; on the contrary, the work is an ethical symbol of life.

Thomas Mann

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