"The Refuge", by Hermann Hesse (1917)
"MANY YEARS a favorite wish has accompanied me — or rather it has not so much “accompanied” as been rooted in me, nourished itself on me."
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InLibroVeritas
- il y a 3 heures
- 6 Min
Hermann Hesse : Letter to a Young Poet, 1910
"Perhaps you have hit upon the ideal of being a poet because you see a poet as an original, a perceptive and a pious man, pure in heart..."
Irène de Palacio
- il y a 4 jours
- 2 Min
La Déplanétisation – Malcolm de Chazal
"Pourquoi serais-je de cette planète, me suis-je dit, puisque je ne pense pas comme les autres ?"
Irène de Palacio
- 2 sept.
- 4 Min
"Rêverie sur la voie Appienne" – Anna de Noailles
"Nous-mêmes, les vivants, que faisons-nous d'autre que de nous dissoudre dans l'évaporation des heures et de flotter sur l'aile des choses?"
InLibroVeritas
- 29 août
- 7 Min
Hermann Hesse : Nuits d’insomnie
"Il est très tard. Tu es allongé dans ton lit et tu ne peux pas dormir."
InLibroVeritas
- 29 août
- 7 Min
Hermann Hesse : Les joies modestes de l’existence
Hermann Hesse ; Casa Rossa, 1937 Hermann Hesse Propos sur les joies modestes de l’existence (1899) Des pans entiers de la population...
InLibroVeritas
- 28 août
- 6 Min
"On Little Joys", by Hermann Hesse
'I believe what we lack is joy. The ardor that a heightened awareness imparts to life,.."
InLibroVeritas
- 28 août
- 4 Min
Hermann Hesse : Beauté du papillon
"Tout ce qui est visible est la manifestation d’une signification ; la nature entière est image, langage, hiéroglyphe coloré."
InLibroVeritas
- 28 août
- 6 Min
"Home From the Sea", by J.B. Priestley
"Thus it was not long before I began to see the world as long-voyage sailors must always have seen it."
InLibroVeritas
- 27 août
- 3 Min
"Man and the Night", by Paul Valéry
"We can count these stars, and yet we cannot believe that we exist as far as they are concerned."
InLibroVeritas
- 25 août
- 6 Min
"On A Faithful Friend, by Virginia Woolf
"So we say farewell to a dear and faithful friend, whose virtues we remember — and dogs have few faults."
InLibroVeritas
- 23 août
- 11 Min
“Words Fail Me”, by Virginia Woolf
"Words, then, are not useful. Let us now enquire into their other quality, their positive quality, that is, their power to tell the truth."
InLibroVeritas
- 22 août
- 5 Min
"Second-hand bookshops", by Virginia Woolf
" But here, none too soon, are the second-hand bookshops. Here we find anchorage in these thwarting currents of being..."
InLibroVeritas
- 22 août
- 5 Min
Paul Valéry : Autobiography
"Little by little I made an inner life for myself. I read a great deal of Hugo and Gautier. We begin with the picturesque and the romantic."
InLibroVeritas
- 16 août
- 3 Min
"Farm", by Hermann Hesse
"Sheer misery makes one profound. — But here there are no problems, mere existence needs no justification, thinking becomes a game."
InLibroVeritas
- 16 août
- 4 Min
"Clouded Sky", Hermann Hesse
"I lie and gaze into the evening skv. which for hours has been slowly covering itself with small, silent, tangled clouds."
InLibroVeritas
- 16 août
- 4 Min
"Rainy Weather", by Hermann Hesse
"There is a kind of rainy weather that is refreshing and cheerful. Today's weather is not."
InLibroVeritas
- 8 août
- 4 Min
Clark E Moustakas : The Solitude of Emily Dickinson
"Emily Dickinson did not give up the world but neither could she find I herself in the world, so she retired from it."
InLibroVeritas
- 4 août
- 6 Min
James Hollis : Hamlet's Stuckness
"Hamlet is so familiar to us because he knows, really knows, that he is his own worst problem."
InLibroVeritas
- 30 juil.
- 8 Min
F. Scott Fitzgerald : Sleeping and Waking
"Sleep — real sleep, the dear, the cherished one, the lullaby."
Irène de Palacio
- 21 juil.
- 7 Min
Un beau portrait de Léon Dierx, par Adolphe Brisson (Pointes sèches, 1898)
"Il est resté rivé à sa tâche quotidienne, s'en consolant par le rêve; et il a vieilli de la sorte, timide et mélancolique..."
Irène de Palacio
- 29 juin
- 7 Min
"Le Tripot aux champs", par Octave Mirbeau
Sommes-nous donc dans une époque d’irrémédiable décadence ? Plus nous approchons de la fin de ce siècle, plus notre décomposition s’aggrave.
InLibroVeritas
- 26 juin
- 8 Min
Suffering, Sorrow and Serenity (Maurice de Guérin, Journal)
"You are suffering to-day from the poetry which fills your being and has no outlet. This sorrow is terrible, but so beautiful !"
InLibroVeritas
- 19 juin
- 4 Min
Birds, Rain and Sunshine (Maurice de Guérin, Journal)
"It has just been raining. Nature is fresh and radiant ; the earth seems to taste with rapture the water which brings it life."
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