From Søren Kierkegaard, Repetition (1843), quoted by Theodor Adorno in Kierkegaard: Construction of the Aesthetic, trans. Robert Hullot-Kentor (Minneapolis, MN: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1933, 1989); as quoted and referenced in Michael Fried, Menzel's Realism: Art and Embodiment in Nineteenth-Century Berlin (New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 2002), p. 93.