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

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely. – Albert Camus

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If there is sin against life, it consists in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. – Albert Camus

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Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. – Albert Camus

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If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think wed see the beauty then and stand staring in awe. – Conor Oberst

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After a decade this glum, we deserved a shot of Glee, a show that restored our faith in the power of song, the beauty of dance, and the magic of spirit fingers to chase our cares and woes into somebody elses backyard. – James Wolcott

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Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women. – Alanis Morissette

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I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired. – Janis Ian

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The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death. – Stanislav Grof

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Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it. – Ray Kurzweil

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