On [:] The horror and the ecstasy | Charles Baudelaire, 1865
Gustave Courbet, Portrait of Charles Baudelaire, 1849 . “As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings,...
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On [:] Semi-darkness | Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1950
Caspar David Friedrich, Mondaufgang am Meer, 1822 “Look at your room late in the evening when you can hardly distinguish...
On [:] A foolish expedient | George Bernard Shaw, 1880
George Bernard Shaw and his wife playing chess, 1907 by Alfred Stieglitz“Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle...
On [:] The charms of prematurity | Samuel Beckett, 1946
“Ask the hour of a passer-by and he’ll throw it at you over his shoulder at a venture and hurry...
On [:] Music | Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910
Antonina Leonardov Rzhevskaya, Music, 1902-03 “Music is the shorthand of emotion.” Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910
On [:] Stendhal syndrome | M. de Stendhal / Florence, 1817
Piazza Santa Croce, Florence Stendhal's syndrome, hyperkulturemia, or Florence syndrome is a psychosomatic disorder that causes rapid heartbeat, dizziness, fainting,...
On [:] Essential readings | F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1936
Sister Carrie, by Theodore Dreiser The Life of Jesus, by Ernest Renan A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen Winesburg, Ohio,...
On [:] The clouds | Fitz James O’Brien, 1828 – 62
Johan Christian Dahl, Moon Night Over Dresden, 1827 “We love the night and its quiet; and there is no night...
On [:] An honest heart | Molière, 1666
Engraving from the 1719 edition "Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And...
The Enigma of Venus & Isidore Ducasse | Man Ray, 1920-37
Man Ray, Venus, 1937 ...