"It is destiny that I must live this way, always in a fever pitch, in the throes of indescribable restlessness, thirsting with desire, with thousands of desires that are stranger than the next, torn to shreds by love, tortured by art, a mad dreamer bearing a beating heart amidst an impassive crowd, and inevitably find new torments in new things. I live in confusion and work with the same ardour with which I swing the sword, or laze about in long, exhausting and languishing torpors in the slow shadows of the parlour, and avidly drink in the immense air and shining light, unrestrained, extravagant, reckless, generous, tender, in love with you, sad, merry, from one hour to the next, indomitable and untamed.”

Beirut Martyrs' Square 1994

“Hear this, you creators: to esteem is to create! Esteeming itself is of all esteemed things the most estimable treasure. Through it alone is there value, and without it the nut of existence would be hollow.”

—F. Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Part One, “On the Thousand and One Goals” (edited excerpt).

Henri Cartier-Bresson. A couple sleeping on a train. Romania, 1975

“The man of knowledge must not only love his enemies, but also be able to hate his friends. One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.”

—F. Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Part One, “On the Gift-Giving Virtue, §3” (edited excerpt).

This was what Manhattan would look like in 1980, according to the 1930 film Just Imagine: different traffic levels, pedestrian bridges, skyscrapers, airplanes, and dirigible landings.