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By Thomas Mann.
Measure: that is order, that is light, the music of Creation and the creative mold.
It means also what is achieved, what is wrested from chaos; it is the anti-barbaric, the triumph of form, the triumph of the human. It does not mean the average the mediocre - art is altogether the sphere of boldness and hazards, it always goes to extremes, it never lacks the "trace of audacity" with out which according to Goethe, "no talent is thinkable." It abhors the mediocre, as it abhors the trivial, the tasteless and the low, the despicable cliché; for

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it is pure quality, it stands for the unsatisfied, insatiable demand.