“ Let all who love Beauty pity them. Though they themselves love not Beauty, yet let them pity themselves. ”
Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism (1891). copy citation
| Author | Oscar Wilde |
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| Source | The Soul of Man under Socialism |
| Topic | pity love |
| Date | 1891 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1017/1017-0.txt |
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“How should they use it? They have taken the triple tiara of the Pope. How should p. 76they carry its burden? They are as a clown whose heart is broken. They are as a priest whose soul is not yet born. Let all who love Beauty pity them. Though they themselves love not Beauty, yet let them pity themselves. Who taught them the trick of tyranny?
There are many other things that one might point out. One might point out how the Renaissance was great, because it sought to solve no social problem, and busied itself not about such things, but suffered the individual to develop freely, beautifully, and naturally, and so had great and individual artists, and great and individual men.”
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