1906


The Jungle
White Fang
A Northern Light
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Botchan
Beneath the Wheel
A Crack in the Edge of the World
The Call of the Wild / White Fang
The Phoenix Crown
The Confusions of Young Törless
The Book of Tea
The Shuttle
In Times Gone By (Golden Gate Secrets #3)
In Dreams Forgotten (Golden Gate Secrets, #2)
The Railway Children
Georg Simmel
“ Primitive man, living in communities of restricted extent, providing for his needs by his own production or by direct co-operation, limiting his spiritual interests to personal experience or to simple tradition, surveys and controls the material of his existence more easily and completely than the man of higher culture. In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and beli ...more ”
― Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Secrecy and of Secret Societies

Franz Kafka
“ Nur die neue Vorstellung erweckt ästhetische Freude, sondern jede Vorstellung, die nicht in die Sphäre des Willens fällt, erweckt ästhetische Freude. Sagt man es aber doch, dann würde es bedeuten, nur eine neue Vorstellung können wir derart aufnehmen, daß unsere Willenssphäre nicht berührt wird. Nun ist es aber sicher, daß es neue Vorstellungen gibt, welche wir nicht ästhetisch werten. ”
― Franz Kafka

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