The most enviable situation is not to be the subject of bea… - Jean Guitton

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The most enviable situation is not to be the subject of beauty and to know oneself to be beautiful, but to be the object of beauty and such that only the other enjoys what emanates from us.

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Jean Guitton (1901 - 1999), French philosopher.

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Benedict XVI Søren Kierkegaard C. S. Lewis Thérèse of Lisieux Margaret Fuller

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