1. Watched The Samourai (1967) by Melville. It's cool, well-paced and everything seems under control. I guess Hongkong movies about killers are influenced by this style but they also try to touch the audience by showing that the hero is actually very gentle: he must be a devoted lover or an obedient son.

I love Alain Delon in Rocco and His Brothers (1960). There he was pliant and loyal. See, you can be both pliant and cool.

2. A Pascal quote from overcoming bias.

"When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space which I fill and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant and which know me not, I am frightened and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, why now rather than then... The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me."

3. 'Read' the photos by zichuan. Life is beautiful, after all.