![The garden [of Eden] is the realm of pure beauty from which man is expelled when he becomes interested in ethics, in the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The return into paradise, the homecoming, depends on him penetrating the veils of morality to glimpse again the lineaments of lost beauty.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-garden-of-eden-is-the-realm-of-pure-beauty-from-which-man-is-expelled-when-638934109883437571.jpg)
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