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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.”
Eudora Welty on Friendship as an Evolutionary Mechanism for Language
“When we learned to speak to, and listen to, rather than to strike or be struck by, our fellow human beings, we found something worth keeping alive, worth possessing, for the rest of time.”
Pioneering Scientist Erwin Chargaff on the Power of Being an Outsider and What Makes a Great Teacher
“A teacher is one who can show you the way to yourself.”
Conundrum: Pioneering Trans Writer Jan Morris on Gender, Identity, Belonging, and the Integration of Body and Spirit
“There is no norm. We are all different; none of us is entirely wrong; to understand is to forgive.”
Mary McCarthy on Love and Hannah Arendt’s Advice to Her on the Dangerous Delusion That We Can Change the People We Love
“What’s the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as-you-were?”
Composing a Life: Anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson on Our False Mythos of Achievement and the Messy, Nonlinear Reality of How We Become Who We Are
“The knight errant, who finds his challenges along the way, may be a better model for our times than the knight who is questing for the Grail.”
Neil Gaiman on Why We Read and What Books Do for the Human Experience
“Truth is not in what happens but in what it tells us about who we are.”
Perception and the Power of the Critical Imagination: Alfred Kazin on Embracing Contradiction and How the Sacredness of Human Attention Shapes Our Reality
“The day, the living day, the actual moment, the pang of real life, — to be faithful to this, one must always pay attention, one must never dismiss anything a priori as too trivial.”
Why Do We Love? An Animated Inquiry Into Romance by Philosopher Skye Cleary
“Love is a passion to be chosen and mastered, not sacrificed to.”
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