"Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."
― Albert Camus
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Beauty
― Albert Camus
More From Albert Camus
- "A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad."
- "But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?"
- "After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books."
More In Beauty
- "Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won – and was sent to New York City to compete nationally."― Donna Rice
- "I look OK. I look better in person than I do on film, which is bad because it’s how I make my living, but I am not a beauty and on balance I am glad."― Felicity Huffman
- "Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul."― John Muir