Ivan Aivazovsky - Moonlit night on the Black Sea

To last out the years assigned you by Heaven and not be cut off in mid-course, this is perfection of knowledge.

View X-ray of Ajax, the sword swallower (1928) By Edward J. Kelty

Malvolio in the dungeon (1891) - Edwin Austin Abbey

Freedom is nothing but the distance between the hunter and its prey.

Aftermath of a quarrel between gangsters - Dean Cornwell

both guard the others loneliness.

Hu Bo, An Elephant Sitting Still

Ed van der Elsken. Tokyo. 1981

There is a place called ‘heaven’ where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories unwritten, and the hopes unfulfilled, are continued. We may laugh together yet.

- J.R.R. Tolkien

“Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.”

—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §59 (excerpt).