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From Death in Venice:

It is surely as well that the world knows only a beautiful work itself and not its origins, the conditions under which it comes into being, for if people had knowledge of the sourcesfrom which the artist derives his inspiration they would oftentimes be confused and alarmed and thus vitiate the effects the artist had achieved. [....]

For how can a man be worthy as an educator if he has a natural, inborn, incorrigible penchant for the abyss? Much as we renounce it and seek dignity, we are drawn to it.