A letter from schizophrenic patient Emmy Hauck to her husband. It consists only phrase “Herzensschatzi komm” (darling please come) and “komm komm komm” (come, come, come ) repeated over and over.

Amsterdam airport “Schiphol” 1978

Gustav Klimt, Death and Life, 1915

“We are not so badly off that we have to be as badly off as Stoics.”

— The Gay Science, §326 (excerpt).

Sirius

Hunter S. Thompson in Puerto Rico 1960

“A young boy who had just stolen his father’s car and crashed it, takes one final puff on his cigarette before facing the consequences. (1974).”

I’ll tell you something banal.We’re emotional illiterates. And not only you and I—practically everybody, that’s the depressing thing. We’re taught everything about the body and about agriculture in Madagascar and about the square root of pi, or whatever the hell it’s called, but not a word about the soul. We’re abysmally ignorant, about both ourselves and others.

— Ingmar Berman, from the screenplay Persona (AB Svensk, 1966)

Later that Night  -   Mattias Härenstam, 2014.