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"

Little Italy, NY, 1981