“Where pity is preached today, psychologists should keep their ears open, for they will hear a hoarse, groaning, genuine sound of self-contempt.”

—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §222 (edited excerpt).

The barns, 1926 - by Ture Sellman

Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying.

- Rainer Maria Rilke.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

Liberia, 2001

City bus in the outskirts of Murmansk, Kola Peninsula, Arctic Russia 1970s

All my life, I have lived with the feeling that I have been kept from my true place. If the expression "metaphysical exile" had no meaning, my existence alone would afford it one.

— Emil Cioran