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The trouble with being born

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That honest stories all end strangely
Eruption on Mount Etna, Sicily, gives the illusion of a Phoenix in the sky.
“When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.”

—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §31 (excerpt).
Vittorio Gassman by Giuseppe Palmas, Roma 1962
Policemen standing outside of the Umberto Clam House after “Crazy Joe” Gallo was found shot to death at his birthday meal.

When Bufalino ordered Sheeran to make a hit on the notorious gangster Joe Gallo at the Umberto Clam House, Sheeran recalled, “I didn’t know who Russ had in mind, but he needed a favor and that was that. They didn’t give you much advance notice. I don’t look like a mafia shooter. None of these Little Italy people or Crazy Joe and his people had ever seen me before.”
God's lonely man
Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches.
“Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.”

- Aleksandr Isaevič Solženicyn
Masahisa Fukase, Ravens, 1977
Stephen Gill - The pillar