Quotation
“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
The idea behind the quotation
Beauty can feel so powerful and brief that it makes us suffer, because it offers a glimpse of eternity we wish could last forever.
Vocabulary in context
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