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In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.
-Clarice Lispector
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In The World There Exists No Aesthetic

Clarice Lispector
In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.
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The only thing that really matters is that there be an action of goodness, love and intelligence in living. is goodness individual or collective, is love personal or impersonal, is intelligence yours, mine or somebody else? if it is yours or mine then it is not intelligence, or love, or goodness. if goodness is an affair of the individual or of the collective, according to one's particular preference or decision, then it is no longer goodness.
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You can be good for the mere sake of goodness; you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. you can do a kind action when you are not feeling kind and when it gives you no pleasure, simply because kindness is right; but no one ever did a cruel action simply because cruelty is wrong - only because cruelty is pleasant or useful to him, in other words, badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. and there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.
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Goodness has no opposite. most of us consider goodness as the opposite of the bad or evil and so throughout history in any culture goodness has been considered the other face of that which is brutal. so man has always struggled against evil in order to be good; but goodness can never come into being if there is any form of violence or struggle.
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The puritan, of course, is not entirely devoid of aesthetic feeling. he has a taste for good form; he responds to style; he is even capable of something approaching a purely aesthetic emotion. but he fears this aesthetic emotion as an insinuating distraction from his chief business in life: the sober consideration of the all-important problem of conduct. art is a temptation, a seduction, a lorelei, and the good man may safely have traffic with it when it is broken to moral uses--in other words, when its innocence is pumped out of it, and it is purged of gusto.
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Every ignoramus imagines that all that exists, exists with a view to his individual sake; it is as if there were nothing that exists except him. and if something happens to him that is contrary to what he wishes, he makes the trenchant judgement that all that exists is an evil.
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