"We can never see the world other than incompletely: deliberately to see it as incomplete is to create an artistic aspect."

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Source : Egon Friedell (2008). “A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vol. 1: Renaissance and Reformation”, p.15, Transaction Publishers

Egon Friedell

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