Stalker, Redrik Shuhart

illustration to the book by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky "Roadside picnic"

illustration on separation from the book
"He had stopped trying to think. He just repeated his litany over and over: “I am an animal, you see that. I don’t have the words, they didn’t teach me the words. I don’t know how to think, the bastards didn’t let me learn how to think. But if you really are … all-powerful … all-knowing … then you figure it out! Look into my heart. I know that everything you need is in there. It has to be. I never sold my soul to anyone! It’s mine, it’s human! You take from me what it is I want … it just can’t be that I would want something bad! Damn it all, I can’t think of anything, except those words of his … ‘HAPPINESS FOR EVERYBODY, FREE, AND NO ONE WILL GO AWAY UNSATISFIED!’ ”