Uma Thurman, c. 1990

“What man is begins to betray itself when his talent decreases and stops showing what he can do. Talent is finery, and finery is a hiding place.”

—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §130 (edited).

“Summer with Monika” dir. Ingmar Bergman (1953) screening on a side of a barn in Iowa, USA.

Osiris attends to a soul leaving the body of the deceased. 

Who returns us to ourselves, when we most struggle to gain distance?

Võ Thi Thang smiling after being sentenced to 20 years hard labour in a prison camp by the South Vietnamese govt. After being sentenced she reportedly smiled at the judge and said "20 years? Your government won't last that long." - 1968

S. E Biron; Death

1971 Iranian fashion icon and music legend Googoosh takes a picture in front of Notre Dame Cathedral - Paris, France

This was a vital part of the process of simple realization, the realization that knowledge led either to wholesale illusion or to irrational depression…

— László Krasznahorkai, The Melancholy of Resistance

West Berlin, Potsdamer Platz, June 1986.