In a protest against censorship, photographer A.L. Schafer staged this iconic photograph in 1934, violating as many rules as possible in one shot.

An airplane passes in front of a rainbow above the Mediterranean sea in Nice, southeastern France on August 5, 2010. by Lionel Cironneau

“No, what worries me is that I might in a sense adapt to this environment and come to be comfortable here and not resent it anymore. And I am afraid that as the years go by that I may forget, I may begin to lose my memories of the mountains and the woods and that’s what really worries me, that I might lose those memories, and lose that sense of contact with wild nature in general. But I am not afraid they are going to break my spirit.”

— Ted Kaczynski, when asked if he was afraid of losing his mind in prison.

“I'm a born librarian with a sex drive”

“I have tried to write Paradise

Do not move
Let the wind speak
that is paradise.

Let the Gods forgive what I
have made
Let those I love try to forgive
what I have made.”

― Ezra Pound

“Nostos,” by Louise Glück

“Consider how every individual is affected by an overall philosophical justification of his way of living and thinking. He experiences it as a sun that shines especially for him, bestowing warmth, blessings, and fertility.”

—The Gay Science, §289 (edited excerpt).