Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent…

Aldous Huxley
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Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty. ✨ Aldous Huxley (1957). The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley
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