De Profundis

Indeed, that is the charm about Christ, when all is said: he is just like a work of art. He does not really teach one anything, but by being brought into his presence one becomes something. A

But in a manner not yet understood of the world he regarded sin and suffering as being in themselves beautiful holy things and modes of perfection

that is because the imagination is simply a manifestation of love, and it is love and the capacity for it that distinguishes one human being from another.

For the artistic life is simply self-development. Humility in the artist is his frank acceptance of all experiences, just as love in the artist is simply the sense of beauty that reveals to the world its body and its soul. In Marius the Epicurean Pater se