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“O father! O father! now, now, keep your hold,
The Erl-King has seized mehis grasp is so cold!
Sore trembled the father; he spurrd thro the wild,
Clasping close to his bosom his shuddering child;
He reaches his dwelling in doubt and in dread,
But, claspd to his bosom, the infant was dead.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (17991832)
“In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it.... Man believes that the world itself is filled with beautyhe forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the worldalas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
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