“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.

Occasion for a moment’s despair,’ he thought, ‘if I’d been standing here purely by chance, and not from choice’.

8½ (Federico Fellini) 

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

"The Faithful Colt"