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“I was looked at, but I wasn’t seen.”

-Albert Camus, “The Misunderstanding.”

𝐵𝓁𝓊𝑒 𝒹𝒶𝓎𝓈 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒷𝓁𝓊𝑒 𝓈𝓀𝒾𝑒𝓈

ℑ 𝔰𝔭𝔦𝔩𝔩𝔢𝔡 𝔪𝔶 𝔠𝔬𝔣𝔣𝔢𝔢… ☕️

𝙸’𝚖 𝚝𝚒𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙸 𝚠𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚕𝚎𝚎𝚙 𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛.

I have a bottle of wine on my bookshelf. I put it next to my Russian literature, Kafka, and Camus. I think that’s fitting, no? 🍷

“How was I to know, since apart from our two bodies, now separated, there wasn’t anything to keep us together, or even to remind us of each other?”

-Albert Camus. “The Stranger.”

ℭ𝔞𝔪𝔲𝔰 𝔴𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡 𝔥𝔞𝔳𝔢 𝔩𝔞𝔲𝔤𝔥𝔢𝔡 …

“Could he be an animal if music moved him so?”

-Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis

“I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.”

-Albert Camus, “The Stranger”

(I took this picture in my study room instead of studying for my midterms)