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Simone de Beauvoir on Our Search for Meaning and Why Happiness Is Our Moral Obligation

“The saving of time and the conquest of leisure have no meaning if we are not moved by the laugh of a child at play.”

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16 Overall Favorite Books of 2016

From loneliness to love to black holes, by way of Neil Gaiman, Annie Dillard, and Mary Oliver.

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Dissident Poet Boris Pasternak on Aloneness and Why We Make Art

“A book is nothing but a cube of hot, smoking conscience.”

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Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on the Courage and the Necessity of Crises

“Courage is what love looks like when tested by the simple everyday necessities of being alive.”

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On Nonconformity: Artist Ben Shahn’s Spirited Defense of Nonconformists as Society’s Engine of Growth and Greatness

“Without the nonconformist, any society of whatever degree of perfection must fall into decay.”

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Annie Dillard on the Winter Solstice and How the Snowy Season Awakens Us to Life

“Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”

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The Best Children’s Books of 2016

From love to mortality to the lives of Einstein and Louise Bourgeois, by way of silence and the color of the wind.

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Multivocality, Polyphony, Gumbo Yaya: Elizabeth Alexander, Barack Obama’s Inaugural Poet, on the Power of Poetry in Moments of Powerlessness

“We just have to really, really, really dust ourselves off and do our work. That’s all there is to it — love each other, do your work.”

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Leonard Cohen on Moonlight, the Mystique of Creativity, His Influences, and Why He Loves It When People Cover His Songs

“It’s also very difficult to untangle influences because you represent the sum of everything you’ve seen or heard or experienced.”

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Making the Impossible Possible: 21-Year-Old Hillary Rodham’s Remarkable 1969 Wellesley College Commencement Speech

“If the only tool we have ultimately to use is our lives, so we use it in the way we can by choosing a way to live that will demonstrate the way we feel and the way we know.”

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Search results for “camus”

“The saving of time and the conquest of leisure have no meaning if we are not moved by the laugh of a child at play.”

From loneliness to love to black holes, by way of Neil Gaiman, Annie Dillard, and Mary Oliver.

“A book is nothing but a cube of hot, smoking conscience.”

“Courage is what love looks like when tested by the simple everyday necessities of being alive.”

“Without the nonconformist, any society of whatever degree of perfection must fall into decay.”

“Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”

From love to mortality to the lives of Einstein and Louise Bourgeois, by way of silence and the color of the wind.

“We just have to really, really, really dust ourselves off and do our work. That’s all there is to it — love each other, do your work.”

“It’s also very difficult to untangle influences because you represent the sum of everything you’ve seen or heard or experienced.”

“If the only tool we have ultimately to use is our lives, so we use it in the way we can by choosing a way to live that will demonstrate the way we feel and the way we know.”

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