I like to let go of things that are close to me so as to run backward, toward times that are by now extinguished.

- Fleur Jaeggy

The fact is that no contradictory aspect can exist in isolation. Without its opposite aspect, each loses the condition for its existence.

The 1945 sketch of circular shaped implosion-type passed by the American spies for the Soviet Union. This schematic was part of the development of RDS-1, test fired in Kazakhstan in 1949.

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

American Indian Movement, Wounded Knee, 1973.

One does not criticize mountains - one climbs them or stays at home. Nietzsche was probably the first to understand what conventional moralism is: the criticism of mountains by non-climbers.

— Peter Sloterdijk

Simon Marmion - Man of Sorrows (c. 1460). Detail.