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Liebestraum No. 3 and the sublime
Liebestraum No. 3 is a piano piece composed by the Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt in 1850. It translates to "Dreams of Love" and is one of three…
What novelists should strive for (according to Ayn Rand)
“It was Aristotle who said that fiction is of greater philosophical importance than history, because history represents things only…”
The philosophy of love
"The parched earth loves the rain / And the high heaven, with moisture laden, loves / Earthwards to fall." - Euripides
Seneca on time
Time is invaluable: it's finite, we don't know how much of it we have and we can never get it back. Yet it's easy to forget its value.
Prometheus who changed his mind
“After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men the fire of the gods, he broke his chains—and he…”