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Albert Camus on Beauty

1913–1960 France

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

Helen's Exile (1948)

Without beauty, love, or danger it would be almost easy to live.

We have exiled beauty; the Greeks took up arms for her.

Helen's Exile (1948)

[B]eauty 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.

We all have a weakness for beauty.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Albert Camus (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.