#academia aesthetics

It's quite interesting how Arthur Conan Doyle said My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces ...

Are they destroying you or are you destroying yourself and they are not doing anything to save you?...

When I find myself in times of trouble Rainer Maria Rilke comes to me, speaking words of wisdom "You are not too old, and it ...

When you're faced with a seemingly unsolvable problem, reduce yourself to the problem and you yourself become that problem. ...

Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with Fyodor Dostoevsky...

EXULANSIS n. the tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it—...

Avijeet Das / Charlotte Brontë / Bill Bryson / I Origins / Carlo Rovelli / Carl Sagan...

Franz Kafka's desk I sat at my fine desk ... It's a respectably minded desk which is meant to educate. Where the writer's ...

This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather ...

Franz Kafka, diary entry, November 9, 1911...

Leo Tolstoy Edgar Allan Poe Kahlil Gibran Charles Baudelaire Rainer Maria Rilke Donna Tartt Fyodor Dostoevsky ...

When Nietzsche said You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star, and Anaïs Nin said In chaos there ...

Voltaire Mikhail Bulgakov Elizabeth Gaskell Alexandre Cabanel / Fallen Angel Allen Ginsberg Gaston Leroux ...

Franz Kafka...

Just like Alan Ginsberg, I, too, don’t do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision....

- Franz Kafka...

Franz Kafka Rumi Haruki Murakami Theodore Dreiser Sigmund Freud Rudyard Kipling Henry Miller...

Do you know what a poem is, Esther?' No, what?' I would say. A piece of dust.' Then, just as he was smiling and starting to ...

But when Kafka said Even in my strong times I wasn't very strong it broke something in me....

"I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting ...