To name a thing is easy: the difficulty is to discern it before its appearance. In giving expression to the last stage of an idea, — an idea which permeates all minds, which tomorrow will be proclaimed by another if I fail to announce it today, — I can claim no merit save that of priority of utterance. Do we eulogize the man who first perceives the dawn?

The Survivor, René Magritte, 1950.

Beckett, Solitude, c. 1932

Lumberjack at the bar on Saturday night learns that man’s best friend is really a cat, Craigville, Minnesota, 1937 - by Russell Lee

Sarajevo

There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

- Victor Hugo