“I think I am a better ghost than I am a human being.”
— Ingmar Bergman, from the film Ansiktet
— Ingmar Bergman, from the film Ansiktet
"He's a nihilist," repeated Arkady.
"A nihilist," said Nikolai Petrovitch. "That's from the Latin, nihil, nothing, as far as I can judge; the word must mean a man who... who accepts nothing?"
"Say, who respects nothing," put in Pavel Petrovitch, and he set to work on the butter again.
"Who regards everything from the critical point of view," observed Arkady.
"Isn't that just the same thing?" inquired Pavel Petrovitch.
"No, it's not the same thing. A nihilist is a man who does not bow down before any authority, who does not take any principle on faith, whatever reverence that principle may be enshrined in."
"A nihilist," said Nikolai Petrovitch. "That's from the Latin, nihil, nothing, as far as I can judge; the word must mean a man who... who accepts nothing?"
"Say, who respects nothing," put in Pavel Petrovitch, and he set to work on the butter again.
"Who regards everything from the critical point of view," observed Arkady.
"Isn't that just the same thing?" inquired Pavel Petrovitch.
"No, it's not the same thing. A nihilist is a man who does not bow down before any authority, who does not take any principle on faith, whatever reverence that principle may be enshrined in."
“but now and again there’s a moment / when the heart cries aloud: yes, I am willing to be / that wild darkness, / that long, blue body of light.”
— Mary Oliver, from New and Selected Poems
— Mary Oliver, from New and Selected Poems
There is always that pain you never know how to live with from Childhood to adulthood for the rest of your life.
“Beatles Go Home! Have a Haircut!”, “Throw out Beatles!” and other similar hate messages showed up on the banners and flyers around Tokyo Hilton Hotel –where The Beatles stayed for their concert in Japan- in the morning of June 29th 1966. Those banners and flyers were carried by youth members of Dainippon Aikokuto or The Great Japan Patriotic Party, one of Japan’s popular right political party.