“But beauty, too, is never perfected and for that very reason incites to vanity; for beauty works hard to achieve what it finds lacking in its own self-imposed ideal – yet another error, for beauty’s secret actually consists in the attraction that comes from imperfection.”

“But beauty, too, is never perfected and for that very reason incites to vanity; for beauty works hard to achieve what it finds lacking in its own self-imposed ideal – yet another error, for beauty’s secret actually consists in the attraction that comes from imperfection.”

— Thomas Mann