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1 " When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar. "
― G.K. Chesterton , What's Wrong with the World
2 " Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined. "
