[Gutenberg 59680] • Venus. To the Venus of Melos

Excerpt from Venus: To the Venus of Melos

You are not a vain and sterile statue, the image of some unreal god dess of the Empyrean. Ready for action, you breathe, you are a wom an: and that is your glory. You are goddess only in name; the myth ological nectar does not run in your veins. What is divine in you is the infinite love of your sculptor for na ture. More ardent and above all more patient than other men, he was able to lift a corner of the veil too heavy'for their idle hands.)

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