Pamela Singh, Chipko Women Hug Tree To Protect It From Being Cut In Northern Uttar Pradesh, 1994

Shadow, Osaka, Photo by Daido Moniyama, 1995

Statues of Endre Ady and Miklos Radnoti. Budapest, Hungary. June 2019,

Jean Cocteau by Germaine Krull

Enrico Guazzoni The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian (Livio Pavanelli)

Film still from “Fabiola”, 1918

In your two arms rocking I am  quietly In my two arms rocking you are  quietly In your two arms I am a child,  listening. In my two arms you’re the child, I’m  listening With your arms you hold me tight when  I am scared With my arms I hold you tight and  I’m not scared In your arms even the silence  of death won’t  frighten me. In your arms I’ll fall through death  as though falling through a dream.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably risesand sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death—ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life.

James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidean mind of man, that in the world’s finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, for all the blood that they’ve shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

Botanical Study N° 4 |  Fawn DeViney  

Film still from “Si le vent te fait peur” (If the wind frightens you) directed by Emile Degelin, 1960.

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