The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). “Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry”, p.155, Syracuse University Press
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