"- Gentlemen, I stake two million !" "- Agreed ! You stake your millions and I stake my freedom !" said the young man."

"Nous fûmes tout d’abord deux ou trois seulement à découvrir en nous cet intérêt pour les arts, la musique, la littérature..."

Lire Léon Deubel aujourd'hui, c'est rendre hommage à l'un des derniers "poètes maudits", qui consacra sa courte vie à la poésie.

Poème "Lassitude" de Renée Vivien, issu de son recueil "Cendres et Poussières" publié en 1902.

"L’épouvantable monde où nous vivons donne le goût de l’isolement et de la fatalité."

“La mer, qui bat la plage à cent pas de là, fait à ses rêveries indécises un puissant et monotone accompagnement“.

Florilège de citations et extraits de deux oeuvres de Remy de Gourmont : "Promenades littéraires", et "Des pas sur le sable".

"After you have done with all your classes, the next thing is a collection of books, a great library of good books."

" "Pour moi, une vie sans musique serait insupportable... je la dédaignerai et m'en débarrasserai."

[Quotations] "I believe that we are on earth for this purpose, for contemplating and searching and listening for lost remote sounds..."

"One of my mental complications — horrible beyond words — is a fear of insanity, which itself is insanity."

”What one takes from this biography is a sense of a man who wanted simultaneously to be no one and to be everyone."

"However much my soul may be descended from the Romantics, I can find no peace of mind except in reading classical authors."

"The only real science is the knowledge of how a person should live his life. And this knowledge is open to everyone."

[Essay] "If one were to compile a list of modernist authors, ... chances are quite good that the authors selected would be insomniacs."

"While Hesse recognized that ideas of degeneration existed during this period, he warned the reader not to yield to despair."

"Just as the artist needs a space in which to work, the artist also opens a space with the work of art."

"In 1860, Dostoevsky began to formally write about his prison experience in a serial work he called Notes from a Dead House."

[Essay] "The aim of this essay is to make the mystical, or contemplative elements of Rimbaud's life and poetry clear."

Florilège des oeuvres sensibles et mélancoliques du poète symboliste Albert Samain...

“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers..."

"A Comparison of the Subject Matter and Thought of Montaigne's and Bacon's Essays "

On croit tout savoir de Ionesco. Et pourtant, sa facette pessimiste et introspective est souvent trop peu connue...

Quelques extraits choisis des oeuvres d'Hermann Hesse, à propos de la solitude qui lui était si chère.