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The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.
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