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Richard Jefferies : Hours of Spring
"It is sweet on awaking in the early morn to listen to the small bird singing on the tree. "

InLibroVeritas
il y a 7 heures5 min de lecture


H.D. Thoreau on himself (Journal)
"Here I am thirty-four years old, and yet my life is almost wholly unexpanded. How much is in the germ! "

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il y a 5 jours5 min de lecture


H.D. Thoreau : Fair Haven Hill
"The traveller need not go out of the road to get as many as he wants; every bush and vine teems with palatable fruit."

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5 juin4 min de lecture


H.L. Mencken : Psychologists in a Fog
"THE SO-CALLED science of psychology is now in chaos, with no sign that order is soon to be restored. "

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4 juin4 min de lecture


H.L. Mencken : On Living in Baltimore
"I believe that this feeling for the hearth, for the immemorial lares and penates, is infinitely stronger in Baltimore than in New York — that it has better survived there, indeed, than in any other large city of America."

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2 juin7 min de lecture


H.D. Thoreau : The Battle of the Ants
"One day, when I went out to my wood-pile, or rather my pile of stumps, I observed two large ants, the one red, the other much larger and black, fiercely contending with one another..."

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27 mai4 min de lecture


Ashyaghosha : The Way of Tranquillity and The Way of Wisdom
"Those who are practising ‘stopping’ should retire to some quiet place and there, sitting erect, earnestly seek tranquilize and concentrate the mind."

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26 mai5 min de lecture


Carl Jung : The Origin of the Hero
"The psychic life-force, the libido, symbolizes itself in the sun or personifies itself in figures of heroes with solar attributes."

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23 mai5 min de lecture


Carl Jung : Myths and Dreams
"Myth is certainly not an infantile phantasm, but one of the most important requisites of primitive life."

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20 mai6 min de lecture


Carl Jung : Return To The Simple Life
"The return to the simple life can be regarded as an unhoped-for piece of good fortune even though it demands considerable self-sacrifice and is not undertaken voluntarily."

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15 mai5 min de lecture


Viktor Frankl : Existential frustration and Logotherapy
"Not every conflict is necessarily neurotic; some amount of conflict is normal and healthy."

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4 mai5 min de lecture


R.W. Emerson : Notes on nature
" By Latin and English Poetry, I was born and bred in an oratorio of praises of nature, flowers, birds and mountains, sun and moon..."

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1 mai4 min de lecture


Hermann Hesse : A Discontented Disciple (Sheldon Kopp)
"This tale begins when Siddhartha, the beautiful son of a Brahman priest, finds that though he makes everyone else happy, he is not happy himself."

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30 avr.7 min de lecture


H.D. Thoreau : The Horse and Man
"The more I considered, the more the man seemed akin to the horse."

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27 avr.4 min de lecture


H.D. Thoreau : Journal, December 1841
"One does not soon learn the trade of life. That one may work out a true life requires more art and delicate skill than any other work."

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18 avr.5 min de lecture


"Now I am alone" ; Mary Shelley (Journal)
"Now I am alone — oh, how alone! The stars may behold my tears, and the winds drink my sighs; but my thoughts are a sealed treasure, which I can confide to none."

Irène de Palacio
14 avr.2 min de lecture


"The Exhilarations of the Road", by John Burroughs
"Shakespeare makes the chief qualification of the walker a merry heart."

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12 avr.5 min de lecture


Horace, the Philosopher of Life
"A great source of the richness of personality which constitutes Horace's chief appeal lies in his contemplative disposition."

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26 mars10 min de lecture


D. H. Lawrence : Enslaved by Civilisation
"The one thing men have not learned to do is to stick up for their own instinctive feelings, against the things they are taught."

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17 mars7 min de lecture


Richard Jefferies : Wild Flowers
"A friend said, "Why do you go the same road every day ? Why not have a change and walk somewhere else sometimes ?"

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14 mars4 min de lecture


Robert Louis Stevenson : On the Choice of a Profession
"YOU WRITE to me, my dear sir, requesting advice at one of the most momentous epochs in a young man’s life."

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28 févr.8 min de lecture


Robert Louis Stevenson : Pulvis Et Umbra
"The design in most men is one of conformity; here and there, in picked natures, it transcends itself and soars on the other side..."

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28 févr.6 min de lecture


Samuel Johnson : Le paresseux
"Le temps est de toutes les propriétés celle qu’il faut le plus garantir contre l’invasion."

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24 févr.3 min de lecture


Carl Jung : Americans Must Say "No"
"The tempo of America is being taken as a norm to which life should be directed."

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15 févr.3 min de lecture
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