New York Sky

World Trade Center

"New York is nothing without its sky. Naked and immense, stretched to the four corners of the horizon, it gives the city its glorious mornings and the grandeur of its evenings."
Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays

Foreign Body

United Nations Building

"This is how New York affects me, like a foreign body in the eye, delicious and unbearable, evoking tears of emotion and all-consuming fury."
Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays

Exile

Financial District

"I loved New York, with that powerful love that sometimes leaves you full of uncertainties and hatred:  sometime one needs exile."
Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays

Smell of Rain

West 40th

"The very smell of New York rain tracks you down in the heart of the most harmonious and familiar towns, to remind you there is at least one place of deliverance in he world, where you, together with a whole people and for as long as you want, can finally lose yourself forever."
Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays

New York Rain

Grace Building

"New York rain is a rain of exile. Abundant, viscous and dense, it pours down tirelessly between the high cubes of cement into avenues plunged suddenly into the darkness of a well."
Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays

Island

West 79th Street Boat Basin

"Sometimes from beyond the skyscrapers, across the hundreds of thousands of high walls, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia in the middle of the night, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island."
Albert Camus, American Journals