Search results for “Kafka”
The Art of Living: The Great Humanistic Philosopher Erich Fromm on Having vs. Being and How to Set Ourselves Free from the Chains of Our Culture
“Full humanization… requires the breakthrough from the possession-centered to the activity-centered orientation, from selfishness and egotism to solidarity and altruism.”
Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Exquisite Polyamorous Love Letters from the 1920s
“Surely, one must be either undiscerning, or frightened, to love only one person, when the world is so full of gracious and noble spirits.”
Why We Read: Polish Poet and Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on What Books Do for the Human Spirit
“Homo Ludens with a book is free… free — and no other hobby can promise this — to eavesdrop on Montaigne’s arguments or take a quick dip in the Mesozoic.”
Iris Murdoch on the Fluidity of Gender and Sexuality: Her Intensely Beautiful Love Letters to Brigid Brophy
“It’s snowing (big flakes) and I love you.”
Galileo on Why We Read and How Books Give Us Superhuman Powers
“What sublimity of mind was his who dreamed of finding means to communicate his deepest thoughts to any other person, though distant by mighty intervals of place and time!”
What Makes a Person: The Seven Layers of Identity in Literature and Life
“It is the intentions, the capacities for choice rather than the total configuration of traits which defines the person.”
John Keats’s Exquisite Love Letter to Fanny Brawne
“Love is my religion — I could die for that — I could die for you. My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet.”
James Joyce’s Love Letters
“If I am to write anything fine or noble in the future I shall do so only by listening at the doors of your heart.”
How Aubrey Beardsley’s Visionary Illustrations for Oscar Wilde’s “Salome” Subverted Victorian Gender Norms and Revolutionized the Graphic Arts
“He is drawing not persons but personages; he is dramatizing not the relationships between personalities but the pure, geometric essence of relationship.”
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