‘A poet’s work … To name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.’
Salman Rushdie - The Satanic Verses, 1988
Photo by Bryan Adam’s, July 2007
‘I wonder what it would be like to live in a world
where it was always June.’
Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, 1908
📷 László Moholy-Nagy, Scandinavia
"It's a terrible thing to be alone, but it's an even more terrible thing to be with someone and still feel alone. That is the true tragedy of human existence: we are islands shouting at each other across oceans of misunderstanding."
— Virginia Woolf
"The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed."
- Ernest Hemingway
« L’homme libre est celui qui peut dire “non” lorsque tous attendent qu’il dise “oui” ; car la dignité commence dans l’acte de résister à la pression du troupeau. »
Friedrich Nietzsche
“When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a surrender, like the relief and the repose of the conquered.”
~ Emil Cioran
“You can hold back from the suffering of the world, you have free permission to do so... but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could have avoided.”
— Franz Kafka