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The Marginalian
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Resolutions for a Life Worth Living: Attainable Aspirations Inspired by Great Humans of the Past
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Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity
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Polish Poet and Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on the Creative Power of Uncertainty
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Zadie Smith’s 10 Rules of Writing
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Fixed vs. Growth: The Two Basic Mindsets That Shape Our Lives
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James Baldwin on the Creative Process and the Artist’s Responsibility to Society
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How to Move a Mind: Barry Lopez on the Power of Metaphor Over Data
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Rebecca Solnit on Hope in Dark Times, Resisting the Defeatism of Easy Despair, and What Victory Really Means for Movements of Social Change
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How We Spend Our Days Is How We Spend Our Lives: Annie Dillard on Choosing Presence Over Productivity
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17 Life-Learnings from 17 Years of The Marginalian
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Yes to Life, in Spite of Everything: Viktor Frankl’s Lost Lectures on Moving Beyond Optimism and Pessimism to Find the Deepest Source of Meaning
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Adam Phillips on Why a Capacity for “Fertile Solitude” Is Essential for Self-Esteem and Healthy Relationships
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Hope, Cynicism, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves
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Buckminster Fuller’s Manifesto for the Genius of Generalists
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Unselfing Social
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Nick Cave on Creativity, the Myth of Originality, and How to Find Your Voice
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How to Avoid Work: A 1949 Guide to Doing What You Love
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Celebrated Writers on the Creative Benefits of Keeping a Diary
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The Beginning and the End: Robinson Jeffers’s Epic Poem About the Interwoven Mystery of Mind and Universe
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Mozart on Creativity and the Ideation Process
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Pleasure and Spaciousness: Poet Naomi Shihab Nye’s Advice on Writing, Discipline, and the Two Driving Forces of Creativity
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Debunking the Myth of the 10,000-Hours Rule: What It Actually Takes to Reach Genius-Level Excellence
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An Ecology of Intimacies
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16 Life-Learnings from 16 Years of The Marginalian
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The Daily Routines of Great Writers
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Fixed vs. Growth: The Two Basic Mindsets That Shape Our Lives
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Umberto Eco’s Antilibrary: Why Unread Books Are More Valuable to Our Lives than Read Ones
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James Baldwin on the Creative Process and the Artist’s Responsibility to Society
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How People Change: Psychoanalyst Allen Wheelis on the Essence of Freedom and the Two Elements of Self-Transcendence
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Nick Cave on Music, Mystery, and the Relationship Between Vulnerability and Freedom
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Becoming the Marginalian: After 15 Years, Brain Pickings Reborn
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On Children: Poignant Parenting Advice from Kahlil Gibran
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Poetry as Prayer: The Great Russian Poet Marina Tsvetaeva on Reclaiming the Divine
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Italo Calvino on Writing: Selected Wisdom from a Lifetime of Letters
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How to Keep Life from Becoming a Parody of Itself: Simone de Beauvoir on the Art of Growing Older
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The Beach and the Soul: Anne Morrow Lindbergh on the Benedictions of the Sea
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Nick Cave on the Antidote to Our Existential Helplessness
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Love After Life: Nobel-Winning Physicist Richard Feynman’s Extraordinary Letter to His Departed Wife
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Against Cynicism: Isaac Asimov on the Case for Optimism about the Human Spirit
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Kafka’s Remarkable Letter to His Abusive and Narcissistic Father
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A Life of One’s Own: A Penetrating Century-Old Field Guide to Self-Possession, Mindful Perception, and the Art of Knowing What You Really Want
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Leo Tolstoy on Finding Meaning in a Meaningless World
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Albert Camus on Consciousness and the Lacuna Between Truth and Meaning
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Why Writers Write: George Orwell on the Four Universal Motives for Creative Work
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The Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist Erich Fromm on Love and the Meaning of Respect
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Carl Jung on How to Live and the Origin of “Do the Next Right Thing”
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Last glasped on Apr 19, 2024
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Philosopher Erich Fromm on the Art of Loving and What Is Keeping Us from Mastering It
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Last glasped on Nov 9, 2022
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Saying the Ineffable: Poetry and the Language of Silence
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Last glasped on Feb 19, 2023
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The Transcendent Brain: The Poetic Physicist Alan Lightman on Spirituality for the Science-Spirited
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Last glasped on Mar 16, 2023
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In Praise of Idleness: Bertrand Russell on the Relationship Between Leisure and Social Justice
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Last glasped on Jul 9, 2022
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How Creativity in Humor, Art, and Science Works: Arthur Koestler’s Theory of Bisociation
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How to Grow Up: Nick Cave’s Life-Advice to a 13-Year-Old
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Last glasped on Aug 26, 2023
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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: Uncommonly Lovely Invented Words for What We Feel but Cannot Name
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Last glasped on Sep 25, 2024
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Nobel-Winning Poet Joseph Brodsky on the Remedy for Existential Boredom
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How To Be Alone
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Last glasped on Jul 9, 2024
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The Soul-Expanding Value of Difficulty: Rilke on How Great Sadnesses Transform Us and Bring Us Closer to Ourselves
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Last glasped on Aug 27, 2023
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How to Grow Up: Nick Cave’s Life-Advice to a 13-Year-Old
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Last glasped on May 4, 2023
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The Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior: Bertrand Russell’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
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Last glasped on Nov 22, 2022
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How to Be a Good Creature: Naturalist Sy Montgomery on What 13 Animals Taught Her About Otherness, Love, and Being Fully Human
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Last glasped on Jun 16, 2023
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John Steinbeck on the Creative Spirit and the Meaning of Life
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Last glasped on Jan 15, 2023
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Alan Watts on Money vs. Wealth
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Last glasped on Feb 25, 2024
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How to Read Intelligently and Write a Great Essay: Robert Frost’s Letter of Advice to His Young Daughter
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Last glasped on Apr 8, 2023
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Octavia Butler on Creativity, the Generative Power of Our Obsessions, and How We Become Who We Are
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Last glasped on Apr 11, 2024
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How to Keep Your Hoping-Machine Running: 29-Year-Old Woody Guthrie’s List of Life-Resolutions
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Last glasped on Jan 7, 2023
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Does Your Dog Really Love You and What Does That Really Mean? A Journey in Cognitive Science and Moral Philosophy
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Last glasped on Jul 24, 2024
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Octavia Butler’s Advice on Writing
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Last glasped on Sep 24, 2023
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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”
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Last glasped on Jun 12, 2024
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Barry Lopez on the Cure for Our Existential Loneliness and the Three Tenets of a Full Life
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Last glasped on Sep 18, 2022
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Thunder, Bells, and Silence: The Eclipse that Went Extinct
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Last glasped on May 30, 2024
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Coleridge on the Paradox of Friendship and Romantic Love
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Last glasped on Apr 1, 2023
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200 Years of Solitude: Great Writers, Artists, and Scientists on the Creative and Spiritual Rewards of Fertile Aloneness
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Last glasped on Jul 22, 2024
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Artist Louise Bourgeois on How Solitude Enriches Creative Work
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Last glasped on Nov 10, 2023
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The Life of the Mind: Hannah Arendt on Thinking vs. Knowing and the Crucial Difference Between Truth and Meaning
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Last glasped on Mar 3, 2024
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Against the Slippery Slope of Injustice: Amanda Palmer Reads Wendell Berry’s Stunningly Prescient Poem “Questionnaire”
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Last glasped on Jul 24, 2022
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Hannah Arendt on Love and How to Live with the Fundamental Fear of Loss
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Last glasped on Sep 26, 2024
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How to Love the World More: George Saunders on the Courage of Uncertainty
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Last glasped on Jun 13, 2023
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The One That Got Away: The Bittersweet Story of George Orwell and His Childhood Sweetheart
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Last glasped on Aug 5, 2023
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Sometimes: Poet and Philosopher David Whyte’s Stunning Meditation on Walking into the Questions of Our Becoming
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Last glasped on Aug 4, 2022
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Ursula K. Le Guin on Art, Storytelling, and the Power of Language to Transform and Redeem
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Last glasped on Mar 3, 2024
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Polyvagal Theory and the Neurobiology of Connection: The Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity
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The Marginalian
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Last glasped on Jul 31, 2024
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Wendell Berry on Solitude and Why Pride and Despair Are the Two Great Enemies of Creative Work
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Last glasped on May 21, 2024
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Steve Jobs on Why Computers Are Like a Bicycle for the Mind (1990)
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Last glasped on Jul 19, 2024
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Iris Murdoch on Storytelling, Why Art Is Essential for Democracy, and the Key to Good Writing
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Last glasped on Apr 20, 2024
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The Remedy for Creative Block and Existential Stuckness
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Last glasped on Apr 1, 2023
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Big Wolf & Little Wolf: A Tender Tale of Loneliness, Belonging, and How Friendship Transforms Us
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Last glasped on Jun 3, 2024
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The Difference Between Curiosity and Wonder and How It Shaped the Science vs. Scripture Divide
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Last glasped on May 5, 2024
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The Doom and Glory of Knowing Who You Are: James Baldwin on the Empathic Rewards of Reading and What It Means to Be an Artist
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Last glasped on Mar 3, 2024
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What Is Art? Favorite Famous Definitions, from Antiquity to Today
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Last glasped on Mar 3, 2022
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The Art of Being Alone: May Sarton’s Stunning 1938 Ode to Solitude
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Last glasped on Dec 26, 2022
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Technology, Wisdom, and the Difficult Art of Civilizational Self-Awareness: Thomas Merton’s Beautiful Letter of Appreciation to Rachel Carson for Catalyzing the Environmental Movement
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Last glasped on Oct 8, 2022
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Against the Cult of Originality: Emerson on the True Nature of Genius
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Last glasped on Feb 11, 2023
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John Steinbeck on Falling in Love: A 1958 Letter of Advice to His Lovesick Teenage Son
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Last glasped on Apr 1, 2024
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The Paradox of Freedom: The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist Erich Fromm on Moral Aloneness and Our Mightiest Antidote to Terror
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Last glasped on Sep 18, 2023
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Poet Jane Kenyon’s Advice on Writing: Some of the Wisest Words to Create and Live By
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Last glasped on Apr 1, 2023
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Virginia Woolf on How to Read a Book
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Last glasped on Jul 2, 2023
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The Will to Doubt: Bertrand Russell on Free Thought and Our Only Effective Self-Defense Against Propaganda
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Last glasped on Nov 20, 2023
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The Art of Conversation: Timeless, Timely Do’s and Don’ts from 1866
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Last glasped on Dec 19, 2023
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Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Catalog of Beautiful Untranslatable Words from Around the World
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Last glasped on Sep 10, 2022
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Mary Oliver’s Advice on Writing
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Last glasped on Apr 1, 2023
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Hermann Hesse on the Three Types of Readers and the Most Transcendent Form of Reading
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Last glasped on Jul 2, 2023
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A Spell Against Stagnation: John O’Donohue on Beginnings
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Last glasped on Dec 30, 2023
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20-Year-Old Hunter S. Thompson’s Surprisingly Sage Advice on How to Find Your Purpose and Live a Meaningful Life
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Last glasped on Aug 23, 2022
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A Tender Illustrated Celebration of the Many Languages of Love
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Last glasped on Nov 19, 2023
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The Poetry of Reality: Robert Louis Stevenson on What Makes Life Worth Living
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Last glasped on Jun 16, 2023
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Waking Up: David Whyte on the Power of Poetry and Silence as Portal to Presence
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Last glasped on Aug 4, 2022
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Nick Cave on Music, Mystery, and the Relationship Between Vulnerability and Freedom
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Last glasped on Dec 2, 2022
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Aesthetic Consumerism and the Violence of Photography: What Susan Sontag Teaches Us about Visual Culture and the Social Web
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Last glasped on Nov 10, 2023
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Inclining the Mind Toward “Sudden Illumination”: French Polymath Henri Poincaré on How Creativity Works
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Last glasped on Mar 17, 2023
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3 Things to Learn from a Child, 7 from a Thief: Bob Dylan’s Favorite Rabbi Teaching
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Last glasped on Mar 25, 2024
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Werner Heisenberg Falls in Love: The Love Letters of the Nobel-Winning Pioneer of Quantum Mechanics and Originator of the Uncertainty Principle
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Last glasped on Apr 29, 2023
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Reason and Emotion: Scottish Philosopher John Macmurray on the Key to Wholeness and the Fundaments of a Fulfilling Life
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Last glasped on Jul 6, 2023
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