Emil Cioran : A Portrait of Civilized Man
"Civilization, our drug, has so poisoned us that our dependence on it is an addiction, a mixture of ecstasy and curse."
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InLibroVeritas
9 mai 20217 min de lecture
Henry David Thoreau : Mind and Nature
"There is, no doubt, a perfect analogy between the life of the human and that of the vegetable, both of the body and the mind."
InLibroVeritas
7 mai 20218 min de lecture
"Something Defeasible", by Max Beerbohm
"It looked as though it had been built for all time. But this was not so. For it was built on sand, and of sand; and the tide was coming..."
InLibroVeritas
6 mai 20218 min de lecture
"Fantastic Night", by Stefan Zweig (extract)
"The black trees stood around me, rustling, and I loved them. Stars shone down from above, and I breathed in their white salutation."
InLibroVeritas
6 mai 20216 min de lecture
"My Silent Confidant", by Søren Kierkegaard
"Who am I ? How did I get into the world ? Why was I not asked about it ?"
InLibroVeritas
5 mai 20215 min de lecture
"Going out for a walk", by Max Beerbohm
"When I grew up it seemed to me that the one advantage of living in London was that nobody ever wanted me to come out for a walk."
InLibroVeritas
5 mai 20213 min de lecture
"La Vie drôle", par Alphonse Allais
"Je viens d'accomplir une plaisanterie complètement idiote, mais dont le souvenir me causera longtemps encore de vives allégresses."
InLibroVeritas
30 avr. 20218 min de lecture
"A Man by the Name of Ziegler", by Hermann Hesse
"Now Ziegler felt deeply horrified, for ever since he swallowed the magic pill, he had understood the language of animals."
InLibroVeritas
29 avr. 20215 min de lecture
"De la philosophie", par Madame de Staël
"La philosophie, dont je crois utile et possible aux âmes passionnées d'adopter les secours, est de la nature la plus relevée."
InLibroVeritas
28 avr. 20217 min de lecture
"The Beautiful Dream", by Hermann Hesse
"The fact that the student enjoyed his happiness only in a dream should not diminish it ..."
InLibroVeritas
25 avr. 20218 min de lecture
"More Trivia", by Logan Pearsall Smith
"The older I grow, the more of an alien I find myself in the world; I cannot get used to it, cannot believe that it is real."
InLibroVeritas
24 avr. 202114 min de lecture
"Trivia", by Logan Pearsall Smith
"Can it be possible that I am as real as any one else, and that all of us feel ourselves like ghosts and goblins in this authentic world ?"
InLibroVeritas
22 avr. 20217 min de lecture
"The Painter", by Hermann Hesse
"Oh, how he yearned to feel the vibration between himself and everything in the world !"
InLibroVeritas
20 avr. 20215 min de lecture
Hermann Hesse : Hymn to Old Age
"Old age is a stage in our lives, ... it has its own face, its own atmosphere and temperature, its own joys and needs."
InLibroVeritas
20 avr. 20213 min de lecture
"A walk in the spring", by Hermann Hesse
"Stone on the path, you are stronger than me ! Tree in the meadow, you will outlast me, and perhaps so will you, little raspberry bush..."
InLibroVeritas
19 avr. 20217 min de lecture
Søren Kierkegaard : A Fragment of Life
"I don’t feel like doing anything. I don’t feel like riding — the motion is too powerful; I don’t feel like walking — it is too tiring..."
InLibroVeritas
15 avr. 20213 min de lecture
Lichtenberg : Aphorisms on Books, Reading and Truth
"I offer this book to you not as a lorgnette to observe others but as a mirror to observe yourself."
InLibroVeritas
13 avr. 20216 min de lecture
Emil Cioran : Man, that dissatisfied animal...
"If I could, I would choose every day another form, plant or animal, I would be all flowers one by one: weed, thistle, or rose..."
InLibroVeritas
11 avr. 20215 min de lecture
Amiel's Journal : Spring, 1855
"— I realized this morning the prodigious effect of climate on one’s state of mind ..."
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8 avr. 202110 min de lecture
Nietzsche : Letters to his friends
"Oh, dear friend, what a small amount of joy is mine and what a lot of my own smoke I have to consume !"
InLibroVeritas
7 avr. 20216 min de lecture
Alone on the High Seas of the Soul (by James Hollis)
"When we are not alone when we are on our own, then we have achieved solitude."
InLibroVeritas
6 avr. 20217 min de lecture
"Les nuits blanches", par Fiodor Dostoïevski
"Dès le matin, j’avais été pris d’un étrange chagrin : il me semblait que tout le monde me fuyait, m’abandonnait, qu’on me laissait seul..."
InLibroVeritas
23 mars 20213 min de lecture
"Joy", by Anton Chekhov
"What's the matter ? You don't look like yourself !" "It's because I am so delighted, Mamma ! Do you know, now all Russia knows of me !"
InLibroVeritas
21 mars 20214 min de lecture
Voltaire : Limits of the human mind
"What is thought ? where does it dwell ? how is it formed ?"
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