Dining Alone, Joseph Lorusso.

If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth.

“Beware of those who attach great value to being credited with moral tact and subtlety in making moral distinctions. They never forgive us once they have made a mistake in front of us, or worse, against us.”

—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §217 (excerpt).

Night-time Solitude, Holly Warburton

So, today we are too alive to die and too dead to live.

The Heartbeat of Death II by Haruko Maeda (2014)

Superiority - by Zdeněk Dvořák

Julia Soboleva

To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.

Now that he was quite alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know.