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Old 02-11-2010, 11:39 PM   #14
Rocket Man
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Default Re: Possible "pull quotes" for upcoming Superiors books

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Originally Posted by tHEhERETIC View Post
I don't think #3 is too sophisticated--I think it's someone else describing him very well. Though I'm curious about the translation--"aesthetical" is an uncommon word in English, and the symmetry of the quote suggests something closer to "beautiful". What's the original word in German? Which work of his? I can't read German but I can access Project Gutenberg as well as anyone.
It's from "The Genius With The Inverted Torch." A different source translates it pretty similarly, save that he ends with "Death is not aesthetic."

Christopher
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