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The trouble with being born

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The Hustler by Karolis Strautniekas
Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be, like the reality of yesterday, an illusion tomorrow.

— Luigi Pirandello
“Beware of the scholars! They hate you, for they are sterile and have cold, dried-up eyes.”

- F. Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Part Four, “On the Higher Man,” §9 (edited excerpt).
Every tormented “Occidental” suggests a Dostoyevskian hero with a bank account.
47 Tuc, Star Diamond Jewellery Box
“You can tell it any way you want but that’s the way it is. I should of done it and I didn’t. And some part of me has never quit wishin I could go back. And I cant. I didn’t know you could steal your own life. And I didn’t know that it would bring you no more benefit than about anything else you might steal. I think I done the best with it I knew how but it still wasn’t mine. It never has been.”

— Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
Alfred Eisenstaedt. Fall fashion from 1938.
“I think I am a better ghost than I am a human being.”

— Ingmar Bergman, from the film Ansiktet