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No one can agree about what Heraclitus actually meant or how to characterize his philosophy.

This is promising for desert island reading because I could spend hours puzzling over just one of riddles.

I refer to the philosopher often and would need him on my island, too.

Fragments by Heraclitus

Lots of exciting stories, poems, and mysteries for a stranger in a strange land.

Kierkegaards ironies have driven me crazy for many years, but I crave them anyway.

Every time I read it, this novel as philosophy or philosophy as novel never stops producing new meanings.

Complete Works of Aristotle

This diabolical work of fiction is so complex in its structure that I remain awed by it.

Dickinson has amazed me since I was 11 years old.

This extraordinary book takes you into a luminous mind at work.

The Holy Bible

My admiration for this book is complete.

It is as beautiful, poignant, and ruthless as anything I have ever read.

Whitehead is a bold philosopher who fascinates me, but this book is maddeningly difficult.

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Weeks of reading and rereading might make it a wee bit easier.

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