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Woman and Child

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Friendship and marriage. – The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because…
By Friedrich Nietzsche
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At the Gate of Death

Choose a poem that finds you, as Coleridge says, and read it deeply and often,…
By Harold Bloom
Quotations/Reflections

Success

If people advance confidently in the direction of their dreams, and endeavor to live the…
By Henry David Thoreau
Reflections

The Redeeming Man

But some time, in a stronger age than this mouldy, self-doubting present day, he will…
By Friedrich Nietzsche
Reflections

To Have a Self

To have a self, to be a self, is the greatest concession, an infinite concession,…
By Søren Kierkegaard
Ludwig Wittgenstein Portrait
Reflections/Religion

Wisdom

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed “Wisdom.”…
By Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophy/Reflections

Society

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society…
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Aesthetics/Reflections

The Eyes of People

I like so much better to paint the eyes of people than to paint cathedrals;…
By Vincent van Gogh
Reflections

One with a Touch of Madness in Him

Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a…
By Aristotle
Sadness (Tristesse) by Paul-Albert Besnard
Letters/Reflections

Bear Your Sadnesses

If only it were possible for us to see farther than our knowledge reaches, and…
By Rainer Maria Rilke
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