Forough Farrokhzad - To My Sister

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

Film still from “Fabiola”, 1918

“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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Shadow, Osaka, Photo by Daido Moniyama, 1995

The Cow//Gaav گاو‎  (1969) directed by Dariush Mehrjui

Vera Nikolaevna Bunina (1881-1961)-translator, memoirist, author of literary articles,wife of the writer Ivan Bunin.

Hieronymus Bosch - Scenes from the Passion of Christ, Reverse of Painting “Saint John the Evangelist”. 1489

Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979