...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredite…

Arthur Schopenhauer
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...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself. ✨ Arthur Schopenhauer (1950). The World as Will and Idea
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