Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia, 1906.

Frank Herbert

“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.”

Emil Cioran

'At the zoo: all the animals keep their ease, except the monkeys. You feel that man is not far away.'

Oasis in the Lybian desert