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Richard Dawkins on the Luckiness of Death
"The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arab
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James Baldwin’s Advice on Writing
"Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, en
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What Happens When We Die
"How can a creature who will certainly die have an understanding of things that will exist forever?"
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David Bowie Answers the Famous Proust Questionnaire
"Q: What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? A: Living in fear."
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C.S. Lewis on How to Structure the Days of a Creative Life and Train the Receptive Imagination
There are, in my experience, two fundaments of the creative life: putting yourself regularly in the path of wonder and getting out of your o
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Inner Space, Outer Space, and How to Be an Astronaut in the Cosmos of Connection: Eric Berne on the Key to True Intimacy
"A star is the glowing light inside the other person, distantly seen, brave soul’s tiny flame, too bright to approach without great courage
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Orcas and the Price of Consciousness: Lessons in Love and Loss from Earth’s Most Successful and Creative Predator
Marbling the waters of every ocean with their billows of black and white, orcas are Earth’s most creative and most successful apex predator.
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Bertrand Russell on the Secret of Happiness
"Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendl
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The Weasel and the Meaning of It All: Annie Dillard on How to Live
Suppose we answer the most important question of existence in the affirmative. There is then only one question remaining: How shall we live
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Do Not Spare Yourself: An Antidote to Feeling Like You Are Waiting to Start Living
The only thing more dangerous than wanting to save another person — a dangerous desire too often mistaken for love — is wanting to save your
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Hermann Hesse on Discovering the Soul Beneath the Self and the Key to Finding Peace
"Self-hate is really the same thing as sheer egoism, and in the long run breeds the same cruel isolation and despair."
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How to Handle a Narcissistic and Abusive Parent: Kafka’s Remarkable Letter to Father
"It is, after all, not necessary to fly right into the middle of the sun, but it is necessary to crawl to a clean little spot on earth where
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How to Speak Forest
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Nietzsche on How to Find Yourself and the True Value of Education
"No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life."
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How to Fall in Love Better: A Field Guide to Enlightened Enchantment
Enchantment, J.R.R. Tolkien believed, is “as necessary for the health and complete functioning of the Human as is sunlight for physical life
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Emerson on How to Trust Yourself
"It is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the indepe
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A Stoic’s Key to Peace of Mind: Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety
"There are more things ... likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality."
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The Three Elements of the Good Life
To be a true person is to be entirely oneself in every circumstance, with all the courage and vulnerability this requires. And yet because a
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How to Be a Poet: Elizabeth Alexander on the Yin-Yang of Connection and Contradiction
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Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life
"To be a human being among people and to remain one forever, no matter in what circumstances, not to grow despondent and not to lose heart —
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The Vampire Problem: The Paradoxical Psychology of Why It Is So Hard to Change
"Many of [life's] big decisions involve choices to have experiences that teach us things we cannot know about from any other source but the
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How to Hold the Darkness: Notes on Living Through Uncertainty
There are times in life when the continent of certainty parts underfoot and, as the ash cloud of the old world rains darkness upon us, we ar
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The Science of Waiting and the Art of Delay
Exploring the intersection of time and decision-making to shine a light on what it means to be human.
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Steinbeck and the Difficult Art of the Friend Breakup
"I can’t consider you a friend when out of every contact there comes some intentionally wounding thing."
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