
Henry David Thoreau, by R. L. Stevenson
[Essay] "Thoreau's faculties were of a piece with his moral shyness; for they were all delicacies."
Henry David Thoreau, by R. L. Stevenson
Nietzsche and Kierkegaard: Ways of Life
The Wisdom of Anton Chekhov
Schopenhauer and Indian Philosophy
Transforming sorrow into beauty, truth and art
John Keats : The Alchemy of Art
Karl Jaspers: Melancholy and Creativity
Homer’s Odyssey as Spiritual Quest
Freud’s Debt to Nietzsche and Schopenhauer
Anton Chekhov: An Artist of Life
Hamlet : A Case of Madness ?
"La mélancolie est d’autant plus pure que l’amour l’enveloppe et l’alimente. De leur association naît une palpitation agréable et suave, une grâce de la solitude, un pressentiment voluptueux de l’éternité."
— Cioran, Le livre des leurres, 1936