The Solitary Summer (by Elizabeth von Arnim)
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"- Last night after dinner, when we were in the garden, I said,"I want to be alone for a whole summer, and get to the very dregs of life."
The Solitary Summer (by Elizabeth von Arnim)
Yoshida Kenkō : Essays in Idleness
Leo Strauss : What Is Liberal Education ?
Balzac and Stendhal (by Stefan Zweig)
Plutarch : On Osiris
The Doctrines of Pythagoras
Hermann Hesse : Demian (Prologue)
Cinderella's Name
Cinderella's Garment
"Rainbow Myths", by Carl B. Boyer
Aldous Huxley : Why not stay at home ?
Maine de Biran, The Introvert (by Aldous Huxley)
Aldous Huxley : The Nihilist Revolution
Guy de Maupassant, by Joseph Conrad
Ernest Hemingway : Banquet speech, 1954
Plotinus : The Inner Vision
Mircea Eliade : Rites of Initiation
Søren Kierkegaard : "Gnothi Seauton"
Goethe : Letters to Zelter
Aldous Huxley : Georges de Latour and Géricault
Horace : Hoc Erat In Votis
C.G. Jung : The archdemon of egoism
Miguel de Unamuno : For what did Don Quixote fight ?
George Orwell : The Sporting Spirit