
Benjamin Franklin : On Conversation
"To please in Conversation is an Art which all People believe they understand and practise, tho’ most are ignorant or deficient in it."
Benjamin Franklin : On Conversation
Joubert : The Author, Drawn by Himself
"A nice cup of tea", by George Orwell
Pablo Neruda : Ode to Arthur Rimbaud
"Chinese Parable", by Hermann Hesse
"A Fable", by Mark Twain
Ralph Waldo Emerson : Man and Nature
"Assez ! Extrait du journal d'un peintre défunt" (Ivan Tourgueniev)
"Campement dans l'obscurité", par Robert-Louis Stevenson
"The Art of Solitude", by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"A Fairy World", by Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"The Laugh" (Albert Camus ; The Fall)
Petrarch's Melancholy
Emil Cioran : A Portrait of Civilized Man
Des Esseintes and his books (Huysmans, Against the Grain)
Henry David Thoreau : Mind and Nature
"Something Defeasible", by Max Beerbohm
"Fantastic Night", by Stefan Zweig (extract)
"My Silent Confidant", by Søren Kierkegaard
"Going out for a walk", by Max Beerbohm
"La Vie drôle", par Alphonse Allais
"A Man by the Name of Ziegler", by Hermann Hesse
"De la philosophie", par Madame de Staël
"The Beautiful Dream", by Hermann Hesse