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Quote by Albert Camus
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minu

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

Other quotes by Albert Camus

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody. – Albert Camus

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Sound, Noise
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Albert Camus
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Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery. – Albert Camus

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History
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Albert Camus
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Other Quotes from
Beauty
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Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty. – Dodie Smith

Category:
Beauty

Unless action is taken soon – unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period – we will lose the treasure of Californias open space and environmental beauty. – Adam Schiff

Category:
Beauty

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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Beauty

The problem with beauty is that its like being born rich and getting poorer. – Joan Collins

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Beauty

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The only reason we make good role models is because you guys look up to athletes and we can influence you in positive ways. But the real role models should be your parents and teachers! – Dante Hall

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I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Future

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor. – H. L. Mencken

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Humor