[Extracts] “Art is the quest of our self that drives us along the eternal and never-ending journey we must all make.” ― Max Beckmann

"A group of pleasant people in idyllic surroundings, hopelessly at odds with themselves and with one another."

“Ma vie est l'histoire d'un inconscient qui a accompli sa propre réalisation.” C. G. Jung

[Essay] "Birds are naturally the most joyful creatures in the world...."

"Our regeneration depends on an 'ultraphilosophy' that brings us closer to nature by exploring the entirety and the interior of things."

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

"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."

[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."

“Is illness a prerequisite for the deepest insights ? Kierkegaard, Nietzsche ? Hölderlin ?”

[Book] "Today, mankind believes itself able to do without Art. It does not wish to meditate, to contemplate, to dream..."

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

"One could say .. that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is." Jung

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

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

"Few writer’s rooms are quite so emblematic as the strange solipsistic environment of Proust’s cork-lined bedchamber..."

"For Hamlet and heroes such as him, loneliness represents fulfilment, even if on another level."

"There stand your noble, silent comrades, waiting in their ranks. Pass your eye down their files. Choose your man."

"Of all things which men do or make here below by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books."

"Being a disease of self-consciousness — insomnia perhaps inevitably plagues a disproportionately high number of writers."

"He was bred to no profession," says Emerson ;"he never married; he lived alone; he never went to church; he never voted..."

"Those who have read both Kierkegaard and Nietzsche are often struck by the resemblance not only between many of their ideas"