PORTRAIT OF AN AESTHETE

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FASHION, BY WHICH WHAT IS REALLY FANTASTIC BECOMES FOR A MOMENT UNIVERSAL, AND DANDYSM, WHICH, IN ITS OWN WAY, IS AN ATTEMP TO ASSERTTHE ABSOLUTE MODERNITY OF BEAUTY, HAD, OF ,COURSE THEIR FASCINATION FOR HIM.

THE WORSHIP OF THE SENSES HAS OFTEN, AND WITH MUCH JUSTICE, BEEN DECRIED, MEN FEELING A NATURAL INSTINCT OF TERROR ABOUT PASSIONS AND SENSATONS THAT SEEM STRONGER THAN THEMSELVES, AND THAT THEY ARE CONCIOUS OF SHARING  WITH THE LESS HIGHLY ORGANIZED FORMS OF EXISTENCE.

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• THE CULT OF BEAUTY;
• THE CHOICE OF A LIFE BEYOND COMMON MORALITY:
• THE SOLUTION OF THE DICHOTOMY BETWEEN SENSES AND SPIRIT BY A THEORY OF THE "SPIRITUALIZATION OF THE SENSES";
• THE REVERSAL OF THE PRINCIPLE OF ART IMITATING LIFE INTO THAT OF LIFE IMITATING ART.