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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

"At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman."

— Albert Camus

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Author: Albert Camus
Category: Beauty
Tags: Beauty Heart Humanity Short

Meaning of this quote

A beautiful landscape can suddenly seem indifferent to human purposes and emotions. Camus uses that estrangement to describe the absurd: our desire for familiarity meets a world that does not explain itself to us.

Key takeaway: Recognize that nature need not share the meanings we give it.

Origin of the quote

The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), in the opening discussion of absurdity and the strangeness of the world.

Who actually said this?

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The sentence appears in the cited excerpt of Camus's essay. Inhuman refers here to nature's independence from human meanings, not to cruelty or a rejection of beauty.

Attributed author: Albert Camus

Source: God & the Good Life: text excerpt from The Myth of Sisyphus