Prose Archives - The Final Paradox

Ramon Canudas, sick convalescent by Santiago Rusiñol

Why Have I Lived?

I run through the memory of my past in its entirety and can’t help asking…

By Mikhail Lermontov

Council of gods by Virgil Solis

Seventh Heaven

Something wonderful happened to me. I was transported into the seventh heaven. All the gods…

By Søren Kierkegaard

Abbey among Oak Trees by Caspar David Friedrich

A Veiled Stranger

Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the…

Lovers in a landscape by Pieter Jan van Reysschoot

Flood of Emotion

It was still thundering in the distance; a soft rain was pouring down over the…

Sunrise (Marine) by Claude Monet

The Dream of a Curious Man

Do you know, as I do, how suffering can be savoured,
And do you make…

By Charles Baudelaire

A painting in the style of Vincent Van Gogh depicting a whale hanging from ropes and pulleys on the side of a ship at night.

The Funeral

“Haul in the chains! Let the carcase go astern!” The vast tackles have now done…

By Herman Melville

Gregory Peck Moby Dick

The Sphynx

A short space elapsed, and up into this noiselessness came Ahab alone from his cabin.…

By Herman Melville

Peasant Family Singing by Pieter Jacobsz. Duyfhuysen

Unattainable Happiness

Distance, my friend, is like the future. A dim vastness is spread before our soul;…

The Beloved

Once when I was shedding bitter tears, when, dissolved in pain, my hope was melting…

A painting in the style of Vincent van Gogh that captures despair.

My Soul and Thought

How barren is my soul and thought, and yet incessantly tormented by vacuous, rapturous and…

By Søren Kierkegaard