"Man's work is nothing but a slow trek to discover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images upon which his heart, for the first time, opened itself up." - Albert Camus
I got concerned after seeing various translations of this sentence, so I asked Vincent by e-mail for the original French text. He got it in about ten minutes, and here it is, minus the accent characters which I don't know how to put on the vowels using this blog. Merci bien, Vincent.
"Une oeuvre d'homme n'est rien d'autre que ce long cheminement pour retrover par les detours de l'art les deux ou trois images simples et grandes sur lesquelles the coeur, une premiere fois, s'est ouvert."
Albert Camus, L'envers et l'endroit (Preface) Folio-essais 41
Photo location: Baan Salaklong, Uthaitani province
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