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Quote by Athanase Joja
English (Source)
It is impossible to defend yourself definitively and materially, physically, against death. But if no one can evade it, at least the ideal domination of death is permitted, entrusting to the memory of men - and in a form rising to universality - the gestures and thoughts of mortals. To raise one's own self above the contingency and banality of everyday life, to raise one's own individuality to the splendor of universality, and then to perpetuate itself over successive generations, to impose itself on memory - this is what art ultimately tends towards. To overcome the contingent singular, to transform it into the persistent universal, aere perennius.