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.

Nothing compared to a life in which I try to understand why September is not for me

“All these moralities that address themselves to the individual for the sake of his happiness are counsels for behavior in relation to the degree of dangerousness in which the individual lives with himself, because they generalize where one must not generalize.”

—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §198 (edited excerpt).

We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it.

- Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

Hungary, 1953

“The strange limits of human development (the way it hesitates, takes so long, often turns back, and moves in circles) is due to the fact that the herd instinct of obedience is inherited best by, and at the expense of, the art of command.”

—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §199 (edited excerpt).