Quote by George Eliot

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience.

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing.

Summary

This quote highlights the human tendency to be drawn to the aesthetic or artistic depiction of unpleasant situations when they are observed from a distance or filtered through a foreign lens. It suggests that we may find beauty or fascination in the suffering of others when it is detached from our own lived reality. However, the quote also points out the contradiction in our repulsion towards personally experiencing pain or discomfort, showing how our perception and response to different circumstances can be influenced by our perspective and level of distance from them.

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