"A Fable", by Mark Twain
"Once upon a time an artist who had painted a small and very beautiful picture placed it so that he could see it in the mirror..."
InLibroVeritas
- 18 mai 2021
- 8 Min
"The Laugh" (Albert Camus ; The Fall)
"I was about to light a cigarette, the cigarette of satisfaction, when, at that very moment, a laugh burst out behind me."
InLibroVeritas
- 7 mai 2021
- 8 Min
"Something Defeasible", by Max Beerbohm
"It looked as though it had been built for all time. But this was not so. For it was built on sand, and of sand; and the tide was coming..."
InLibroVeritas
- 6 mai 2021
- 8 Min
"Fantastic Night", by Stefan Zweig (extract)
"The black trees stood around me, rustling, and I loved them. Stars shone down from above, and I breathed in their white salutation."
InLibroVeritas
- 5 mai 2021
- 5 Min
"Going out for a walk", by Max Beerbohm
"When I grew up it seemed to me that the one advantage of living in London was that nobody ever wanted me to come out for a walk."
InLibroVeritas
- 30 avr. 2021
- 8 Min
"A Man by the Name of Ziegler", by Hermann Hesse
"Now Ziegler felt deeply horrified, for ever since he swallowed the magic pill, he had understood the language of animals."
InLibroVeritas
- 28 avr. 2021
- 7 Min
"The Beautiful Dream", by Hermann Hesse
"The fact that the student enjoyed his happiness only in a dream should not diminish it ..."
InLibroVeritas
- 22 avr. 2021
- 7 Min
"The Painter", by Hermann Hesse
"Oh, how he yearned to feel the vibration between himself and everything in the world !"
InLibroVeritas
- 16 févr. 2021
- 4 Min
"An Enigmatic Nature", by Anton Chekhov
"Your sensitive, responsive soul is seeking to escape from the maze of... Yes, the struggle is terrific, titanic. But do not lose heart !"
InLibroVeritas
- 28 déc. 2020
- 1 Min
Oscar Wilde: Narcissus and the Pool
[Short story] "When Narcissus died, the pool of his pleasure changed from a cup of sweet waters into a cup of salt tears..."
InLibroVeritas
- 28 déc. 2020
- 9 Min
"Bohemia", by Mikhail Bulgakov
"If someone asked me what I deserve, I would say in all honesty before God that I deserve hard labor. Not because of Tiflis, however..."
InLibroVeritas
- 26 déc. 2020
- 6 Min
"Vanka", by Anton Chekhov
[Text] "Vanka Zhukov, a boy of nine, who had been for three months apprenticed to Alyahin the shoemaker, was sitting up on Christmas Eve..."
InLibroVeritas
- 23 déc. 2020
- 11 Min
"The Bet", by Anton Chekhov
[Text] "- Gentlemen, I stake two million !" "- Agreed ! You stake your millions and I stake my freedom !" said the young man."
Citations du moment
"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
