The English Renaissance of Art, by Oscar Wilde, Part 1
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The Absolute Difference Between Art and Reality
The absolute distinction of the artist is not his capacity to feel nature, so much as his power of rendering it. The entire subordination of all intellectual and emotional faculties to the vital and informing poetic principle is the surest sign of the strength of our Renaissance. Gerta never harms itself by keeping a Lou from the social problems of the day. Rather by so doing, it more completely realizes for us that which we desire. To most of us, the real life is the life we do not lead; thus remaining more true to its own perfection.
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