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Osamu Dazai. No Longer Human, The Setting Sun, Run, Melos! —His works overflow with the fragility of human weakness, with a delicacy that seems barely alive. It is as if each of his loves left behind a record of a heart sl...

Born in Austria, and forever remembered in the storm of the French Revolution—Marie Antoinette. She is often spoken of merely as a “symbol of waste and extravagance.”Yet if we trace her life carefully, behind the dazzling gowns and the g...

The 14th emperor of the Roman Empire: Hadrian. Born in a small town on the Italian peninsula, he would one day rule over the world’s greatest empire. Hadrian was an emperor who valued reason and aesthetics above the sword.He rebuilt the ...

When he picked up a brush, time seemed to stop. Hair flowing like clouds, a fleeting smile, the soul glimmering deep within the eyes—His touch could capture them all in an instant, as if echoing the breath of God. Leonardo da Vinci.Born ...

Did the sun continue to shine even through the night? King Louis XIV of France — the man known as the Sun King — illuminated the skies of seventeenth-century Europe with dazzling brilliance.He ascended the throne at the age of ...

His life read like a hardbound novel steeped in the scent of whiskey and tobacco. Ernest Hemingway —a man who faced the tempests of war and history with a rifle in one hand and a typewriter in the other,and carved a new language and soul...

Can a young girl’s love bloom even in the midst of war? Anne Frank quietly asks us that question. Her life lasted only fifteen years.Yet her words transcend time, still echoing vividly today. The sky above the attic, the glow of candleli...

William Shakespeare.A man who lived between poetry and drama, and captured the human heart between mask and truth. Think of Romeo and Juliet, or Hamlet.In his stories, love is always sharp as a sword, sweet as wine, and as perilous as po...