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It’s a Good Thing He Wasn’t Around to See Dr. Phil
Posted 18 January, 2008 in Bookish |
“Today’s public no longer forgives an author for failing, after the action he describes, to give his verdict; indeed, in the very course of the drama he is told to take sides, to declare himself for Alceste or Philinte, for Hamlet or Ophelia, for Faust or Marguerite, for Adam or Jehovah. I do not claim, of course, that neutrality (I was about to say: indecision) is a sure sign of a great mind; but I do believe that many great minds have been greatly disinclined to … conclude — and that to state a problem properly is not to suppose it solved in advance.”
– André Gide, in the preface to The Immoralist (trans. by Richard Howard)