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"Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic
Orders? (...)
For Beauty’s nothing
but beginning of Terror we’re still just able to bear,
and why we adore it so is because it serenely
disdains to destroy us."

This is how Rainer M. Rilke began his "Duino Elegies", appealing to the beauty that hurts.
Bernini also knew, that's why under this angel he engraved:

"Vulnerasti cor meum" (Ct 4, 9)