At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, th…

Albert Camus
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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise . . . that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd. ✨ Albert Camus (2012). The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays, p.14, Vintage
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