albert camus – satomipoema

I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.

– Albert Camus – L’Étranger

Design : Aoi Kotsuhiroi

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

– Albert Camus –

… gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe.

To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I’d been happy, and that I was happy still. For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely …

– Albert Camus – The Stranger

Life can be magnificent and overwhelming – that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live.

– Albert Camus –

For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself.”
– Albert Camus –
Ph : Kanawati

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
– Albert Camus –

I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn’t mine anymore, but one in which I’d found the simplest and most lasting joys: the smells of summer, the part of town I loved, a certain evening sky, Marie’s dresses and the way she laughed.
– Albert Camus – The Stranger

Ph : Christian Coigny

Nothing in life is worth,
turning your back on,
if you love it.
– Albert Camus –
Ph : Evgeniya Rudaya

You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.
– Albert Camus –
Ph : Dominique Swain

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
– Albert Camus –