I didn’t like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea.

Albert Camus

Der serbische Schriftsteller und Überlebende der NS-Konzentrationslager Auschwitz und Buchenwald Ivan Ivanji ist im Alter von 95 Jahren gestorben. juedische-allgemeine.de/juedische-welt…

Vorgestern eröffnete er mit uns das Museum Zwangsarbeit. Gestern morgen verstarb der serbische Schriftsteller und ehemalige Buchenwald-Häftling Ivan Ivanji in Weimar. Wir trauern um einen Freund und Ideengeber. Unsere Gedanken sind bei seinen Angehörigen.

One eye sees, the other feels.

— Paul Klee

(at the Bauhaus, 1929
Foto: Josef Albers)

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

Bertrand Russell

I didn’t like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea.

Albert Camus

‘‘I have led a toothless life’, he thought. ‘ A toothless life. I have never bitten into anything. I was waiting. I was reserving myself for later on-and I have just noticed that my teeth have gone.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Vivian Maier: Newspapers

and now we get to the hard part. the endings, the farewells, and the famous last words. if you don't hear from me often, remember that you're in my thoughts.

— Paul Auster

Nothing lasts, you see, not even the thoughts inside you. And you musn't
waste your time looking for them. Once a thing is gone, that is the end of it.

— Paul Auster

and now we get to the hard part. the endings, the farewells, and the famous last words. if you don't hear from me often, remember that you're in my thoughts.

— Paul Auster

Nothing lasts, you see, not even the thoughts inside you. And you musn't
waste your time looking for them. Once a thing is gone, that is the end of it.

— Paul Auster

Josef Sudek

Dare to think!

— Immanuel Kant, What is Enlightenment?

Kiss the
scar.

— Paul Celan

(tr. by Beth Bjorklund from „Here“)

… and still I’m nothing to you
but a hole in your heart!

Paul Celan, With Your Hand Full of Hours

Romney Wheeler interviews British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic Bertrand Russell at Russell's home in Surrey, England

A Conversation with Bertrand Russell 1952

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Robert Doisneau - Jacques Prévert in a Telephone Booth

Le souffleur, 1944 by Robert Doisneau

Robert Doisneau.
Women, Waiting Down Town By Night, Paris, 1961