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Even in their outward behavior, the lives of artists should differ completely from the lives of other men. They are Brahmins, a higher caste: ennobled not by birth, but by free self-consecration.
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“Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 146

 

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