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Ashes to Ashes

2017-11-11 · 2,765 views · license: CC BY-NC 2.0

Ashes to Ashes — pen and ink drawing by Daniel Ari Friedman. "Don't let them tell us stories. Don't let them say of the man sentenced to death 'He is going to pay his debt to societ
Ashes to Ashes — pen and ink drawing

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"Don't let them tell us stories. Don't let them say of the man sentenced to death 'He is going to pay his debt to society,' but: 'They are going to cut off his head.' It looks like nothing. But it does make a little difference. And then there are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye." – Albert Camus, "Entre oui et non" in L'Envers et l'endroit (1937), translated as "Between Yes and No".

"There's no earthly way of knowing Which direction we are going There's no knowing where we're rowing Or which way the river's flowing Is it raining? Is it snowing? Is a hurricane a-blowing? Not a speck of light is showing So the danger must be growing Are the fires of hell a-glowing? Is the grisly…

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