But in the Appreciative pleasures, even at their lowest, and more and more as they grow up into the full appreciation of all beauty, we get something that we can hardly help calling love and hardly help calling disinterested, towards the object itself. It is the feeling which would make a man unwilling to deface a great picture even if he were the last man left alive and himself about to die
 C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves (1960). copy citation

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Author C. S. Lewis
Source The Four Loves
Topic appreciation beauty
Date 1960
Language English
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