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Sylvia Plath on Free Will, the Pillars of Personhood, and What Makes Us Who We Are
“I: how firm a letter; how reassuring the three strokes: one vertical, proud and assertive, and then the two short horizontal lines in quick, smug succession.”
Thoreau on How Silence Ennobles Speech and the Ideal Space for Conversation
“There are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.”
Vacation and the Art of Presence: Anaïs Nin on How to Truly Unplug and Reconnect with Your Senses
“As you swim, you are washed of all the excrescences of so-called civilization, which includes the incapacity to be happy under any circumstances.”
Delacroix’s Rare Illustrations for Goethe’s Faust
“Goethe … peered into the mysteries of human existence with a hope of solving the imponderables that hold the lives of men enmeshed.”
Madeleine L’Engle on Creativity, Hope, Getting Unstuck, and How Studying Science Enriches Art
“Terrible things happen. And those are the things that we learn from… The amazing thing is that despite all… the human spirit still manages to survive, to stay strong.”
Big Magic: Elizabeth Gilbert on Creative Courage and the Art of Living in a State of Uninterrupted Marvel
“Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you?”
In Praise of Missing Out: Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips on the Paradoxical Value of Our Unlived Lives
“Our lived lives might become a protracted mourning for, or an endless tantrum about, the lives we were unable to live. But the exemptions we suffer, whether forced or chosen, make us who we are.”
The Aesthetic of Silence: Susan Sontag on Art as a Form of Spirituality and the Paradoxical Role of Silence in Creative Culture
“The art of our time is noisy with appeals for silence. A coquettish, even cheerful nihilism. One recognizes the imperative of silence, but goes on speaking anyway.”
In Defense of the Wandering Heart: How Crushes Fortify Your Primary Relationship
“The marriages that last are the ones in which the two members regularly develop (but do not act upon) extramarital infatuations.”
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