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Without a doubt the sense of beauty does not lie determined in the concreteness of an individual beautiful thing or person. Rather its purpose is much more the enchantment of the soul, for there is nothing physical that is not made with the intent of affecting the soul, and there is no soul that does not intend to dazzle everything physical with its sensations.
Alexander Lernet-Holenia
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Alexander Lernet-Holenia
Born:
October 21, 1897
Died:
July 3, 1976
(aged 78)
Known for:
I Was Jack Mortimer
Mars in Aries (1941)
Baron Bagge Count Luna
Mona Lisa
Der Baron Bagge (1936)
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