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Middle Age and the Art of Self-Renewal: An Extraordinary Letter from Pioneering Education Reformer Elizabeth Peabody

Middle Age and the Art of Self-Renewal: An Extraor...

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The Art of Looking: Eleven Ways of Viewing the Multiple Realities of Our Everyday Wonderland

The Art of Looking: Eleven Ways of Viewing the Mul...

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In Praise of the Useless: Bertrand Russell’s Salve for Hard Times

In Praise of the Useless: Bertrand Russell’s Salve...

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How to Keep Criticism from Sinking Your Soul: Walt Whitman and the Discipline of Creative Confidence

How to Keep Criticism from Sinking Your Soul: Walt...

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How to Be Un-Dead: Anaïs Nin and D.H. Lawrence on the Key to Living Fully

How to Be Un-Dead: Anaïs Nin and D.H. Lawrence on ...

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The Enemy Outside and the Enemy Within: Audre Lorde’s Antidote to Despair

The Enemy Outside and the Enemy Within: Audre Lord...

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Let Your Heart Be Broken

Let Your Heart Be Broken

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Zadie Smith on the Courage to Be More Than Yourself

Zadie Smith on the Courage to Be More Than Yoursel...

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How to Live a Miraculous Life

How to Live a Miraculous Life

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Martian Gargoyles and Lunar Fish: Chilean Artist Alejandra Acosta’s Wondrous Embroidered Illustrations for This World’s First Book Theorizing Life on Other Worlds

Martian Gargoyles and Lunar Fish: Chilean Artist A...

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Poetry: I Too, Dislike It

Poetry: I Too, Dislike It

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The Third Thing: Poet Donald Hall on the Secret to Lasting Love

The Third Thing: Poet Donald Hall on the Secret to...

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Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” Brought to Life in a Spanish Flashmob of 100 Musicians

Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” Brought to Life in a Span...

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Ecology, Empire, Emoji: The Bittersweet Story of the Ancient Plant That Originated the Heart Symbol

Ecology, Empire, Emoji: The Bittersweet Story of t...

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Philosopher Martha Nussbaum on How to Live with Our Human Fragility

Philosopher Martha Nussbaum on How to Live with Ou...

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Pythagoras on the Purpose of Life and the Meaning of Wisdom

Pythagoras on the Purpose of Life and the Meaning ...

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Viktor Frankl on Success

Viktor Frankl on Success

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Virginia Woolf on Finding Beauty in the Uncertainty of Time, Space, and Being

Virginia Woolf on Finding Beauty in the Uncertaint...

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