Petter Bladlund

“When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death

“Life is long if you know how to use it.”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

“The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely nothing more.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“I spent a long time looking at faces, drinking in smiles. Am I happy or unhappy? It’s not a very important question. I live with such frenzied intensity.

Things and people are waiting for me, and doubtless I am waiting for them and desiring them with all my strength and sadness. But, here, I earn the right to be alive by silence and by secrecy.

The miracle of not having to talk about oneself.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1935-1951