Lucy Smith and Pauline Ranken ascending Salisbury Crags, Edinburgh, wearing long, ankle-length skirts, hats, blouses and smart shoes, 1908.

Emil Cioran

When it becomes really impossible to get away and sleep, then the will to live evaporates of its own accord.

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

Brian Eno pouring tea for his cat (1974)

To be merely a fanatic of indifference

Dostoyevsky in prison. Omsk, Siberia, 1853.

“As long as the utility reigning in moral value judgments is solely the utility of the herd, there can be no morality of neighborly love.”

—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §201 (edited excerpt).