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Bertolt: An Uncommonly Tender Illustrated Story about Love, Loss, the Life-Saving Power of Trees, and Learning How to Savor Unlonely Solitude

Wisdom on mortality and the aliveness of the heart from an ancient tree and the boy who loved it.

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Ursula K. Le Guin on Redeeming the Imagination from the Commodification of Creativity and How Storytelling Teaches Us to Assemble Ourselves

“Literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we’re visiting, life.”

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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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The Greatest Science Books of 2016

From the sound of spacetime to time travel to the microbiome, by way of polar bears, dogs, and trees.

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10 Learnings from 10 Years of Brain Pickings

Fluid reflections on keeping a solid center.

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The Gold Leaf: An Enchanting Modern Fable About the Antidote to Our Selfish Impulses

A gentle reminder that the most beautiful things in life belong to no one and to everyone.

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Agnes Martin on Our Greatest Obstacle to Happiness and How to Transcend It

“No-one knows what your life or life itself should be because it is in the process of being created. Life moves according to a growing consciousness of life and is completely unpredictable.”

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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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This Is Not a Picture Book: An Irreverent Illustrated Ode to Why We Read

Charming cartography for the emotional voyages on which books take us.

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Proust on Why We Read

“The end of a book’s wisdom appears to us as merely the start of our own, so that at the moment when the book has told us everything it can, it gives rise to the feeling that it has told us nothing.”

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Search results for “herman hesse”

Wisdom on mortality and the aliveness of the heart from an ancient tree and the boy who loved it.

“Literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we’re visiting, life.”

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

From the sound of spacetime to time travel to the microbiome, by way of polar bears, dogs, and trees.

Fluid reflections on keeping a solid center.

A gentle reminder that the most beautiful things in life belong to no one and to everyone.

“No-one knows what your life or life itself should be because it is in the process of being created. Life moves according to a growing consciousness of life and is completely unpredictable.”

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

Charming cartography for the emotional voyages on which books take us.

“The end of a book’s wisdom appears to us as merely the start of our own, so that at the moment when the book has told us everything it can, it gives rise to the feeling that it has told us nothing.”

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