“Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.”
Kunst ist Magie, befreit von der Lüge, Wahrheit zu sein.
E. Jephcott, trans. (1974), § 143
Minima Moralia (1951)
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Kunst ist Magie, befreit von der Lüge, Wahrheit zu sein.
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