“Hearing something new is embarrassing and difficult for the ear. Foreign music we do not hear well, but with another language we try involuntarily to form the sounds we hear into words that sound more familiar and more like home to us.”

—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §192 (edited excerpt).

A Chinese PLA horseman riding towards a nuclear explosion whilst aiming a Kalashnikov during a Nuclear weapons test in Lop Nur, China, 1964.

“What we experience in dreams belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced in actuality.”

—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §193 (edited excerpt).

Palestinian fighters on a street in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War - 1975

IRA

What is marvelous is that each day brings us a new reason to disappear.

Dance of the Dead, Karl Hofer, 1946.

The clearest image ever taken of Venus

If Joan of Arc had married, she would no longer have been Joan of Arc.

"Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience, like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting."
- Andrea Illy

Espresso break at "Caffè Florian" on a flooded Piazza San Marco in Venezia (1963).

In old age we should wish still to have passions strong enough to prevent us turning in on ourselves.