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“I’m tired and afraid to continue in this tone. This only to tell you the color of the day and my thoughts. It is heavy and hot. A day for silence, nakedness, shady rooms, abandonment. My thoughts are the color of your hair. Monday and a few days thereafter, they will be the color of your eyes.”
-Albert Camus; Letter to Maria Casarès.-
(Artwork by Joseph Lorusso.)
"This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance, the gap will never be filled. Forever I shall be a stranger to myself."
-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus.-
(Artwork The Red Cloud by David De Las Hera.)
One of the most influential books I have read in my life. Almost disturbing but thoroughly reassuring as well. Man's struggle between meaning and absurd, between suffering and redemption, between the self and the non-self; what does it take? How is one supposed to carry on living a life of contrast, of contradiction, things working for and against at the same time? On the face of the essential absurdity of life, what should a man do, understand and think? The book is by all means an embodiment of existentiel crisis, an anxiety attack, (a bit tedious) but it also gives the reassurance, the quiet that follows. It tells you things you don't know, things you already know, things you heard of but it's more articulate, eloquent, cohesive, and synchronized. Camus is one of the best.
"It is better to burn than to disappear."
-The Stranger, Albert Camus-
"I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know."
_A Happy Death, Albert Camus_
"When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears."
_A Happy Death, Albert Camus._
(Artworks by Clive Smith.)