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SHOULD AESTHETICSTRUMP MORALITY?
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WILDE, OSCAR. Autograph Quotation dated and Signed: ”In the development
of the individual, a sense of colour is of more importance than a sense of right and wrong.”
1 page, 8vo, personal stationery, with integral blank; folds. (MRS)
“Chelsea” [London], 13 October 1890
[4,000/6,000]
This quote is from his dialogue
Intentions
(1913), paraphrased from the words of the character
Gilbert:“Even a colour-sense is more important, in the development of the individual, than a sense of
right and wrong.”