Aubrey Bodine. The Blanket of Snow. 1943

“It is not enough to prove something, one has also to seduce or elevate people to it.”

—Daybreak, §330 (excerpt).

Pyromorphite

Florence Dussuyer, Les endormies: Hoai, 2019

NYC

Cochise County, Arizona.

“If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism: The Essays

Burning sulfur pouring from the side of the Kawah Ijen volcano

“My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment - it's frightful - if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I am the one who pulls myself from the nothingness to which I aspire.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

Attila Szùcs