"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 t...

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There is something divine in mindless beauty.

More Albert Camus quotes
"There is something divine in mindless beauty, and Mersault was particularly responsive to it.
"But a man's beauty represents inner, functional truths: his face shows what he can do. And what is that compared to the magnificent uselessness of a w...
"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 t...
"Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.
"The priest gazed around my cell and answered in a voice that sounded very weary to me. 'Every stone here sweats with suffering, I know that. I have ne...