Quand la beauté nous sauve
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Author: Charles PEPIN
Publishing House: Robert Laffont
Publication Date: February 2013
Description : Beauty strikes us (often unexpectedly) and touches us in a way that can seem all the more inexplicable because it is so strong. However, if we recognize the unique sensation that beauty gives us, we generally do not attribute to it a central role in our existence. We tend to put forward the search for happiness, pleasure, love, friendship, commitment to a cause, success, power… As if beauty was a superficial, secondary pleasure, outside the meaning of our life. Why then does it attract us, fascinate us so much? Why do we need it so much, the particular pleasure it gives us? It is because, without our necessarily being aware of it, beauty does us good, says Charles Pépin.
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