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).

Oslo, Norway, 1959.

Temple of Garni, Garni, Armenia

an equilibrium for all this misery

Burlak

- Ilya Repin, 1870

“One has watched life badly if one has not also seen the hand that considerately kills.”

—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §69.