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“And then he left forever, leaving them to judge and condemn, with pardon on their lips and the sentence in their hearts.”

(Ugh, Camus’ view on the village of Marken at the Zuider Sea): A doll’s village, isn’t it? No shortage of quaintness here! Anyone can show you peasant headdresses, wooden shoes and ornamented houses with fishermen smoking choice tobacco, surrounded by the smell of furniture wax. Well, what do you think of it? Isn’t it the most beautiful negative landscape? In front the sea. Everlasting nothingness made visible.