[The Child of Pleasure by Gabriele D’Annunzio]@TWC D-Link bookThe Child of Pleasure CHAPTER II 9/11
Though penetrated, impregnated with art, as yet he had not produced anything remarkable.
Eager in the pursuit of pleasure and of love, he had never yet really loved or really enjoyed whole-heartedly.
Tortured by aspirations after an Ideal, and abhorring pain both by nature and education, he was vulnerable on every side, accessible to pain at every point. In the tumult of his conflicting inclinations, he had lost all guiding will-power and moral perception.
Will, in abdicating had yielded the sceptre to instinct and the aesthetic sense was substituted for the moral.
But, it was nevertheless precisely to his aesthetic sense--in him most subtle and powerful--that he owed a certain strength and equilibrium of mind, so that one might say his existence was a perpetual struggle between contrary forces, enclosed within the limits of that equilibrium.
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