Ireland, 1940

Monica Vitti, 1966.

We should change our name after each important experience.

Smoke and you will destroy yourself.”
1980s Russian anti-smoking poster

we enter the truth only to regret the false.

no friendship tolerates an exaggerated proportion of honesty.

Mircea Suciu (Romanian, b. 1978), Stargazing, 2019.

Edouard Boubat - Ile-de-France, 1973.

It's not the pessimists who write well, but the disappointed

“The noble charm of the Platonic way of thinking consisted precisely in its resistance to obvious sense-evidence.”

—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §14 (edited excerpt).