Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.
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The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.
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Birth: | 7th December, 1889 |
Death: | 8th October, 1973 |
Nationality: | French |
Profession: | Author, Critic, Philosopher, Playwright |
Gabriel Honoré Marcel was born in Paris, France. He was a French philosopher, author, music critic, and playwright. The author of over a dozen books and at least thirty plays, Marcel's work focused on the modern individual's struggle in a technologically dehumanizing society. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from the Sorbonne in 1910. The Mystery of Being is a well-known two-volume work authored by Marcel. He wrote several books include: Being and Having, Man Against Mass Society, Homo Viator, The Decline of Wisdom, Presence and Immortality, Royce's Metaphysics, Problematic Man, Creative Fidelity, and Tragic Wisdom and Beyond. He wrote several plays include: A Just One, The Unfathomable, The Rebellious Heart, A Man of God, The Yoke or the Noose, The Broken World, Ariadne, Dot the I, Colombyre or the Torch of Peace, and Rome n’est plus dans Rome.
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