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How to Meet Your Mystery: Thomas Merton on Solitude and the Soul
How to Meet Your Mystery: Thomas Merton on Solitude and the Soul

“It is a vocation to become fully awake, even more than the common somnolence permits one to be, with its arbitrary selection of approved dreams, mixed with a few really valid and fruitful conceptions.”

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The Strength to Remember and the Strength to Forget: James Baldwin on What Makes a Hero
The Strength to Remember and the Strength to Forget: James Baldwin on What Makes a Hero

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Any Common Desolation
Any Common Desolation

“You may have to break your heart, but it isn’t nothing to know even one moment alive.”

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Miss Leoparda: A Painted Parable of How to Remake a World
Miss Leoparda: A Painted Parable of How to Remake a World

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