• 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
  French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) 1913-1960
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. unbearable
2. offering
3. eternity
4. stretch
5. whole

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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 time. by : Albert Camus

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