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The artist's view of the world and mankind is that which seeks as far as possible to lose itself in its object, illuminating it not from the outside by some light foreign to it, but from within, deriving light from its own core.
Egon Friedell
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Egon Friedell
Age: 60 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 21
Died: 1938
Died: March 16
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Vienna
Austria
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