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After Love: Maxine Kumin’s Stunning Poem About Eros as a Portal to Unselfing
After Love: Maxine Kumin’s Stunning Poem About Eros as a Portal to Unselfing

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The Porcupine Dilemma: Schopenhauer’s Parable about Negotiating the Optimal Distance in Love
The Porcupine Dilemma: Schopenhauer’s Parable about Negotiating the Optimal Distance in Love

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Simone Weil on Love and Its Counterfeit
Simone Weil on Love and Its Counterfeit

How to tell a plaything from a necessity.

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How to Say Goodbye: An Illustrated Field Guide to Accompanying a Loved One at the End of Life
How to Say Goodbye: An Illustrated Field Guide to Accompanying a Loved One at the End of Life

“If you don’t know what to say, start by saying that… That opens things up.”

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The Challenge of Closeness: Alain de Botton on Love, Vulnerability, and the Paradox of Avoidance
The Challenge of Closeness: Alain de Botton on Love, Vulnerability, and the Paradox of Avoidance

The psychological machinery of our commonest coping mechanism for the terror of hurt, rejection, and abandonment.

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Mars and Our Search for Meaning: A Planetary Scientist’s Love Letter to Life
Mars and Our Search for Meaning: A Planetary Scientist’s Love Letter to Life

“It is the search for infinity, the search for evidence that our capacious universe might hold life elsewhere, in a different place or at a different time or in a different form.”

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The Ant, the Grasshopper, and the Antidote to the Cult of More: A Lovely Vintage Illustrated Poem About the Meaning and Measure of Enough
The Ant, the Grasshopper, and the Antidote to the Cult of More: A Lovely Vintage Illustrated Poem About the Meaning and Measure of Enough

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The Donkey and the Meaning of Eternity: Nobel-Winning Spanish Poet Juan Ramón Jiménez’s Love Letter to Life
The Donkey and the Meaning of Eternity: Nobel-Winning Spanish Poet Juan Ramón Jiménez’s Love Letter to Life

“Come with me. I’ll teach you the flowers and the stars.”

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Love’s Work: Philosopher Gillian Rose on the Value of Getting It Wrong
Love’s Work: Philosopher Gillian Rose on the Value of Getting It Wrong

“You may be weaker than the whole world but you are always stronger than yourself. Let me send my power against my power… Let me discover what it is that I want and fear from love. Power and love, might and grace.”

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Dead Stars: Poet Laureate Ada Limón’s Stunning Love Poem to Life
Dead Stars: Poet Laureate Ada Limón’s Stunning Love Poem to Life

“We’ve come this far, survived this much. What would happen if we decided to survive more? To love harder?”

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