Cover to Louis Bouyer’s Figures Mystiques Féminines: Hadewijch d'Anvers, Térèse d'Avila, Thérèse de Lisieux, Elisabeth de la Trinité, Edith Stein (artist/designer unknown, 1989).
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Covers to Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (various artists, early 20th century to early 21st century).
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Cover to Emil M Cioran’s The New Gods (unknown artist/designer, 2013).
Cover to Giacomo Leopardi’s Zibaldone—Penguin Edition (artist/designer unkonwn, 2013).
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Cover to Arthur Schopenhauer’s The World as Will and Representation Vol. 1—Dover Edition (artist/designer unknown, 1966).
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Cover to August Strindberg’s From an Occult Diary (artist/designer unknown, mid 20th century).
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It is not man who pursues truth, but truth man.
Lev Shestov, early 20th century
There is a sense in which pessimists are really failed mystics.
Eugene Thacker, Infinite Resignation, 2018