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Schopenhauer on the human condition and original sin

Milan Kundera and the ideal form of love

Nietzsche’s eternal return

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Rising from the ashes of chaos

How to write poetry like Pablo Neruda

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Gustave Flaubert and the realist novel

Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880) was a French novelist who played a pivotal role in establishing fiction as a serious, respected genre. At the time, poetry was the predominant…