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There is something divine in mindless beauty.

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There is something divine in mindless beauty, and Mersault was particularly responsive to it.

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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...more

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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...more

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Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.