Nehamas Question 2

What does Nehamas mean by stating “It is possible that spending a life, or part of a life, in the pursuit of beauty—even if only to find it, not to produce it—gives that life a beauty of its own?”

In this eloquent statement, Nehamas brings forth the idea that pursuing a life of beauty is so rewarding and that such a life is truthfully beautiful. I completely believe this statement to have great truth and that those who simply seek beauty are just as beautiful as those who create beauty. Although, those who create beauty lead some interesting, usually turbulent lives but they die the most beautiful of deaths. On Emily Dickinson's deathbed, she said as her dying words: "the fog is lifting" which is most interesting because she had a very painful life full of beautiful poetry. It is comforting knowing that she died a beautiful death and was finally at peace.