"Beauty . . . is the only form of the spiritual that we can receive with our senses, endure with our senses. What would become of us if godliness, if reason and virtue and truth, were to appear to our senses? Would we not be devastated and devoured by the flames of love as Semele by Zeus so long ago? Thus Beauty is the feeling man's way to the spirit--only the way, only a
means . . . . "
Thomas Mann
Death in Venice
Joachim Neugroschel translation
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