Search results for “eudora welty”
Seneca on True and False Friendship
“Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul.”
A Cross-Cultural Bridge of Kinship and Mutual Appreciation: The Moving Correspondence of Albert Camus and Boris Pasternak
“It is false to say that frontiers do not exist. They do exist, temporarily. But at the same time there exists a force of creativity and truth uniting us all, in humility and in pride at the same time.”
2014’s Best Books on Psychology, Philosophy, and How to Live Meaningfully
How to be alone, wake up from illusion, master the art of asking, fathom your place in the universe, and more.
The Presence of Absence: Jane Dorn’s Haunting Photographs of Abandoned Buildings in the South
A poignant reminder of our impermanence and the beauty of accepting life’s cycles of growth and decay.
The Best Photography Books of 2013
From Mongolia to Mars, by way of mesmerizing mines and Manhattan’s characters.
Mozart and Haydn’s Beautiful, Selfless Friendship
“If I could only impress on the soul of every friend of music, and on high personages in particular, how inimitable are Mozart’s works, how profound, how musically intelligent, how extraordinarily sensitive!”
The Definitive Reading List of the 14 Best Books of 2014 Overall
From the origin of the universe to the unusual stories behind people’s tattoos, by way of secular spirituality, the hummingbird effect, and Werner Herzog.
Censorship and What Freedom of Speech Really Means: Comedian Bill Hicks’s Brilliant Letter to a Priest
“‘Freedom of speech’ means you support the right of people to say exactly those ideas which you do not agree with.”
Flannery O’Connor on Why the Grotesque Appeals to Us, Plus a Rare Recording of Her Reading “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”
“There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored.”
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