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Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical
Hermann Broch
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Hermann Broch
Age: 64 †
Born: 1886
Born: November 1
Died: 1951
Died: May 30
Essayist
Philosopher
Playwright
Prosaist
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Hermann J. Broch
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Kitsch
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You must neither completely nor partially copy the art of others. If so, you will be producing kitsch.
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