Somnambulant (1878) By Maximilián Pirner

“The mind requires some relaxation, and cannot always support its bent to care and industry.”

— David Hume, Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary

It’s wild that what people want from Ares is just Mars, like besides the supporting women thing it’s like exactly it. A rage filled but heroic warrior who’s actually competent and represents civilization and the common soldier, a city builder. He’s even a farmer god as well. Anyways Chad Mars vs Virgin Ares

BALLERINA (2023) dir. Lee Chung-hyeon

“We all live on the past, and through the past are destroyed.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections

“If this is the best of all possible worlds, what are the others?”

— Voltaire, Candide

“The man who lies ill in bed sometimes discovers that what he is ill from is usually his office, his business or his society and that through them he has lost all circumspection with regard to himself: he acquires this wisdom from the leisure to which his illness has compelled him.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 289

La Femme Nikita (1990)

Lee Yeong-ae, Lady Vengeance, Park Chan-wook, 2005

“Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.” - Marcus Aurelius