S. E Biron; Death

1971 Iranian fashion icon and music legend Googoosh takes a picture in front of Notre Dame Cathedral - Paris, France

This was a vital part of the process of simple realization, the realization that knowledge led either to wholesale illusion or to irrational depression…

— László Krasznahorkai, The Melancholy of Resistance

West Berlin, Potsdamer Platz, June 1986.

Like every year, we will be back in September.

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“Everything unconditional belongs in pathology.”

—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §154 (excerpt).

"Half-truths everywhere," one soldier says. "Half-sincerity, half-friendship. I can't accept that. Here in civilian life they have only half-truths. And the small measure of truth we had in war was a big lie."