"The Nightingale and the Rose" by Oscar Wilde
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"The Nightingale and the Rose" by Oscar Wilde
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In The Nightingale and the Rose, Oscar Wilde offers a haunting fairy tale about love, devotion, and the painful distance between idealism and reality. When a young student believes love can be proven with a single red rose, a nightingale overhears—and commits the ultimate act of sacrifice to make it possible.
But Wilde, ever the sharp observer of the human heart, does not give us a comforting moral. Instead, he asks uncomfortable questions: What is love worth? Who understands its cost? And what happens when selfless devotion meets careless indifference?
Both beautiful and devastating, this short story lingers long after the final line—an elegant reminder that not all sacrifices are recognized, and not all hearts know how to cherish them.
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