“Isolation is not solitude. In solitude, we are never alone with ourselves. In solitude we are always two in one, and we become one, a complete individual with richness and the limits of its exact features, only in relation to the others and in their company. The big metaphysical questions, the search for God, liberty and immortality, relations between man and the world, being and nothingness or again between life and death, are always posed in solitude, when man is alone with himself, therefore, in the virtual company of all. The fact of being, even for a moment, diverted from one’s own individuality allows it to formulate mankind’s eternal questions, which go beyond the questions posed in different ways by each individual.”

- Godard quoting Hannah Arendt in Nous sommes tous encore ici

Vladimir Mayakovsky, The Lady and the Hooligan (1918)

I went far and deep with the knapsack of things I know. I made the journey, bought the useless, found the indefinite, And my heart is the same as it was: a sky and a desert. I failed in what I was, in what I wanted, in what I discovered. I’ve no soul left for light to arouse or darkness to smother. I’m nothing but nausea, nothing but reverie, nothing but longing.

- Fernando Pessoa, English Song (Selected Poems)

François Kollar, The hands of Coco Chanel, 1938

Francisco Infante, The sea, 1983

Eventually we're all just memories, right? At least until the last person we knew dies. Until the places we went fall down or get bulldozed over. After that, we're nothing. It's like we were never really here at all. Just a black screen of nothing.

- The Hellblazer 14, November 2017 (DC Comics, 2017)

Storm in Cusco, Peru

Richard Ramirez

“I feel I am lost. Equivalent to dead. It is terrifying. I no longer feel like making the effort. I think of no one. The rest is over. You as well. I am alone.”

— Marguerite Duras, from “No More; C’est Tout.

by Ferdinando Scianna