Proust's Solitude
"Few writer’s rooms are quite so emblematic as the strange solipsistic environment of Proust’s cork-lined bedchamber..."
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29 oct. 20205 min de lecture
Loneliness and the Tragic Hero in Shakespeare
"For Hamlet and heroes such as him, loneliness represents fulfilment, even if on another level."
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27 oct. 20204 min de lecture
"Through the Magic Door", by Arthur Conan Doyle
"There stand your noble, silent comrades, waiting in their ranks. Pass your eye down their files. Choose your man."
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27 oct. 20206 min de lecture
The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac, by Eugene Field
"Of all things which men do or make here below by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books."
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27 oct. 20205 min de lecture
The Writer as Insomniac
"Being a disease of self-consciousness — insomnia perhaps inevitably plagues a disproportionately high number of writers."
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26 oct. 20205 min de lecture
Henry David Thoreau, portrait by R. L. Stevenson
"He was bred to no profession," says Emerson ;"he never married; he lived alone; he never went to church; he never voted..."
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25 oct. 202010 min de lecture
Nietzsche and Kierkegaard : Ways of Life
"Those who have read both Kierkegaard and Nietzsche are often struck by the resemblance not only between many of their ideas"
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24 oct. 20204 min de lecture
John Lubbock : The Good Life
"Goethe tells us that at thirty he resolved "to work out life no longer by halves, but in all its beauty and totality."
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21 oct. 20207 min de lecture
The Wisdom of Anton Chekhov
[Essay] "Chekhov possessed a practical wisdom that enabled him to care for those he loved and to help others."
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21 oct. 20204 min de lecture
Schopenhauer and Indian Philosophy
"Schopenhauer’s philosophy reveals a profound psychology of saintliness, of inner resignation, true composure, true desirelessness."
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20 oct. 20205 min de lecture
Transforming sorrow into beauty, truth and art
"Artistic creativity is the vehicle for the transformation of the sorrows of the world into beauty, truth and art."
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20 oct. 20206 min de lecture
John Keats : The Alchemy of Art
"The meaning of his aloneness is that, as bringer of light or changer of consciousness, Endymion must overcome darkness."
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20 oct. 20206 min de lecture
Karl Jaspers : Melancholy and Creativity
"Jaspers poses the ancient and Renaissance question of the relationship between diseased psyche and creativity."
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20 oct. 20206 min de lecture
Homer’s Odyssey as Spiritual Quest
"The Odyssey describes a spiritual quest from multiplicity and Strife back to unity and Love."
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18 oct. 20205 min de lecture
Anton Chekhov : An Artist of Life
"Tolstoy called Chekhov, and rightly so, "an artist of life". (...)"
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18 oct. 20206 min de lecture
Hamlet : A Case of Madness
"Hamlet's mind," the critic says, "is constantly occupied with the world within, and abstracted from the world without."
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