Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for ... - Laurence Sterne

This quote is attributed to Laurence Sterne.

"Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should not know how to desire."

Laurence Sterne Beauty

Novelist English 1713–1768

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