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"Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness"
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Hans Urs von Balthasar
between August 12, 1905 and June 26, 1988. He/she was a famous
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