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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