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Oliver Sacks on the Necessity of Our Illusions

Oliver Sacks on the Necessity of Our Illusions

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What Makes a Person: The Seven Layers of Selfhood in Literature and Life

What Makes a Person: The Seven Layers of Selfhood ...

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How to Live Fully: The Samurai Guide to Dying Every Day

How to Live Fully: The Samurai Guide to Dying Ever...

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Simone de Beauvoir on How Chance and Choice Converge to Make Us Who We Are

Simone de Beauvoir on How Chance and Choice Conver...

1 day ago 1

A Spell Against Stagnation: John O’Donohue on Beginnings

A Spell Against Stagnation: John O’Donohue on Begi...

2 days ago 1

Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, and with Fangs: The Alchemy of Unrequited Love and the Story Behind Emily Dickinson’s Most Famous Poem

Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, and with Fangs: T...

5 days ago 0

How to See a Bird: Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris’s Exquisite Illustrated Field Guide to the Wonder of the Winged

How to See a Bird: Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Mo...

5 days ago 1

Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Anger, Forgiveness, and What Maturity Really Means

Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Anger, Forgive...

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How to Survive Hopelessness: The Remarkable Story of a Shipwrecked Family

How to Survive Hopelessness: The Remarkable Story ...

6 days ago 1

Robert Louis Stevenson on Falling in Love and Loving Beyond the Fall

Robert Louis Stevenson on Falling in Love and Lovi...

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Ursula K. Le Guin on the Meaning of Life

Ursula K. Le Guin on the Meaning of Life

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J.R.R. Tolkien on Fairy Tales, Language, the Psychology of Fantasy, and Why There’s No Such Thing as Writing “For Children”

J.R.R. Tolkien on Fairy Tales, Language, the Psych...

1 week ago 0

How Nature Imagined the Figment of You

How Nature Imagined the Figment of You

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A Shelter in Time: John Berger on the Power of Music

A Shelter in Time: John Berger on the Power of Mus...

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Very Necessary Qualifications of a Great Storyteller

Very Necessary Qualifications of a Great Storytell...

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Einstein and the Eagle: How Relativity Is Saving Earth’s Rarest Raptor

Einstein and the Eagle: How Relativity Is Saving E...

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Václav Havel, Writing from Prison, on How to Hold Your Failure

Václav Havel, Writing from Prison, on How to Hold ...

2 weeks ago 1

The Only Three Distinctions Between People

The Only Three Distinctions Between People

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