Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautif…

Karl Kraus
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Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace. ✨ Karl Kraus (1976). Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
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