Quote#Beauty
To us, with our broader outlook, our more complicated interests, our…
Quote byLytton Strachey · 1880–1932
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Landmarks in French Literature (1912), ch. 4..
English (original)
To us, with our broader outlook, our more complicated interests, our more elusive moods, their small bright world is apt to seem uninteresting and out of date, unless we spend some patient sympathy in the discovery of the real charm and the real beauty that it contains.
— Lytton Strachey
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