It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

- Friedrich Nietzsche

And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

Apollo 12 Sees a Solar Eclipse : Fifty years ago, on Nov. 14, 1969, Apollo 12 launched at 11:22 a.m. EST from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida

Forensic sculptor Betty Pat Gatliff works modeling clay on the skull of one of the nine unidentified victims of John Wayne Gacy.

There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.

- Franz Kafka

Haunting oil paintings by Karl Wennergren

Henri Regnault - Execution

The Dying Saint Sebastian (Detail), 1789. by François-Xavier Fabre (1766-1837)

Lola Gil

Bahía Blanca (Jesús Franco, 1984)

When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.

- Albert Camus, A Happy Death

Ecce Homo, 1925, Lovis Corinth

I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.

- Albert Camus, The Fall

Walter Bonatti ascending a face on Mont Blanc