He [Nietzsche] was an aesthete, and not only in a green-carnation-wearing, stained-glass fancying sense of the word. He was one who valued beauty far higher than justice or human kindness, D'Annunzio would respond in the same spirit to the collapse of the campanile in Venice's Piazza San Marco in 1902.He was prostrated by grief, weeping, and pacing from room to room all day, unable to work. 'And the newspapers someone dares to be happy because there were no human victims!' To him the pain and death of his fellow beings would have been insignificant, by comparison with the loss of an harmonious architectural ensemble. 'Innumerable human victims would not be enough to compensate.'
L. Hughes - Hallet, The Pike (2013), 237
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