
"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..."
"A Fable", by Mark Twain
"The Laugh" (Albert Camus ; The Fall)
"Something Defeasible", by Max Beerbohm
"Fantastic Night", by Stefan Zweig (extract)
"Going out for a walk", by Max Beerbohm
"A Man by the Name of Ziegler", by Hermann Hesse
"The Beautiful Dream", by Hermann Hesse
"The Painter", by Hermann Hesse
"An Enigmatic Nature", by Anton Chekhov
Oscar Wilde: Narcissus and the Pool
"Bohemia", by Mikhail Bulgakov
"Vanka", by Anton Chekhov
"The Bet", by Anton Chekhov
"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