A soldier in Vietnam shotgunning cannabis from the barrel of a gun

I know not what tomorrow will bring.

Pessoa's last words, written shortly before his death (1935)

Baudelaire taught me that life is the ecstasy of worms in the sun, and happiness the dance of worms.

Yakuza Justice: Erotic Code of Honor.

Bill Evans

Ornella Muti photographed by Giancarlo Botti, Paris, 1979.

Klaus Schulze church performance at Udine in Italy, November 1975

David B.

The task of painting the picture of life, often as it has been attempted by poets and philosophers, is nevertheless irrational. Even in the hands of the greatest artist-thinkers, pictures and miniatures of one life only – their own – have come into being, and indeed no other result is possible.

— Friedrich Nietzsche in Human, All Too Human, Part Two, Miscellaneous Maxims and Opinions

He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.

- Emil Cioran.