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Read & copy the quotation
“The world is a perpetual caricature of itself.”
- Date
- 1922
Meaning of “The world is a perpetual caricature of itself.”
Social appearances repeatedly exaggerate or contradict reality, making ordinary life look like an ongoing parody of its own pretensions.
Where does it come from?
Soliloquies in England, “Dickens”; Santayana uses caricature to describe the gap between living reality and conventional masks.
