Social Media Ideas for Milan Kundera

How Do We Know What We Want: Milan Kundera on the Central Ambivalences of Life and Love

"We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come... We live everything as it co...

The Cruel and the Frail

“What is happening in the world today,” Thomas Merton wrote to Czesław Miłosz in 1959, responding to the latter’s book The Captive Mind, “is a wholesale collapse of man’s capacity...

Péter Nádas obituary

Hungarian author who explored memory and history in his fiction and was nominated for a Nobel prize The writer Péter Nádas, who has died aged 83, transformed the modern history of...

Kahlil Gibran on the Courage to Weather the Uncertainties of Love

"Think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course."

“Ekseri Načeti Rđom” by Jovan Kovačević (Rende)

If you hold on for a second and think thoroughly for a second, you’ll realize the art of

Italo Calvino on Reading and Sex

"Lovers’ reading of each other’s bodies... differs from the reading of written pages in that it is not linear... What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that...

The Dandelion and the Meaning of Life: G.K. Chesterton on How to Live in Wonder

Recovering the "forgotten blaze or burst of astonishment at our own existence" alive in the back of our modernity-deadened minds.

The Creative Power of Uncertainty: Polish Poet Wisława Szymborska’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

"Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous ‘I don't know.’"

Everything Is Already There: Javier Marías on the Courage to Heed Your Intuitions

"This has nothing to do with premonitions, there is nothing supernatural or mysterious about it, what’s mysterious is that we pay no heed to it."

The 1930 poetry book that Anthropic tried to censor

Intellectual Things by Stanley Kunitz

How to Grow Old without Letting Life Become a Parody of Itself

"In old age we should wish still to have passions strong enough to prevent us turning in on ourselves."

Péter Nádas (1942-2026), een groot Europees schrijver met een intens zintuiglijke stijl

Probability Theory Pioneer Mark Kac on the Unpredictability of Creativity and the Two Types of Geniuses

"Creative people live in two worlds. One is the ordinary world which they share with others and in which they are not in any special way set apart from their fellow men. The other...