– Edvard Munch, diario, 22 gennaio 1892 (trad. mia dalla versione inglese)
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«I was walking along the road with two friends – the sun went down – I felt a gust of melancholy – suddenly the sky turned a bloody red. I stopped, leaned against the railing, tired to death – as the flaming skies hung like blood and sword over the blue-black fjord and the city – my friends went on – I stood there trembling with anxiety – and I felt a vast infinite scream through nature.»
– Edvard Munch's diary, 22 January 1892