Wild Man Dan

“Verily, too early died that Hebrew whom the preachers of slow death honour: and to many hath it proved a calamity that he died too early.   As yet had he known only tears, and the melancholy of the Hebrews, together with the hatred of the good and just—the Hebrew Jesus: then was he seized with the longing for death.   Had he but remained in the wilderness, and far from the good and just! Then, perhaps, would he have learned to live, and love the earth—and laughter also!   Believe it, my brethren! He died too early; he himself would have disavowed his doctrine had he attained to my age! Noble enough was he to disavow!”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None - Illustrated

“How can old wounds heal while maggots linger so richly?”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant

“Is he a poet? Or a genuine one? An emancipator? Or a subjugator? A good one? Or an evil one?”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None - Illustrated

“The camorra turned the needs and rights of their fellow prisoners (like their bread or their pizzo) into favours. Favours that had to be paid for, one way or another. The camorra system was based on the power to grant those favours and to take them away. Or even to throw them in people’s faces. The real cruelty of the turnip-throwing episode is that the camorrista was bestowing a favour that he could just as easily have withheld.”
― John Dickie, Blood Brotherhoods: A History of Italy's Three Mafias