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Simone de Beauvoir on Atheism, the Ultimate Frontier of Hope, and the Key to Moving Beyond the Simplistic Divide of Optimism and Pessimism
“To fight unhappiness one must first expose it, which means that one must dispel the mystifications behind which it is hidden so that people do not have to think about it.”
Simone de Beauvoir on How Chance and Choice Converge to Make Us Who We Are
“My life… runs back through time and space to the very beginnings of the world and to its utmost limits. In my being I sum up the earthly inheritance and the state of the world at this moment.”
In the Company of Women: Wisdom and Advice on the Creative Life from Beloved Women Artists, Makers, and Entrepreneurs
Neko Case, Nikki Giovani, Tavi Gevinson, Maira Kalman, Debbie Millman, Carrie Brownstein, and more.
Elena Ferrante on the Myth of Inspiration, Writing on Demand, and the Central Truth of the Creative Process
“Words draw out words: one can always write a banal, elegant, heartfelt, amusing coherent page on any subject, low or high, simple or complex, frivolous or fundamental.”
Nonstop Metropolis: An Atlas of Maps Reclaiming New York’s Untold Stories and Unseen Populations
“Each of us is an atlas of sorts, already knowing how to navigate some portion of the world, containing innumerable versions of place as experience and desire and fear, as route and landmark and memory.”
The Monarchs, Music, and the Meaning of Life: The Most Touching Deathbed Love Letter Ever Written
From butterflies to Beethoven, an ode to the heart’s uncontainable dimensions.
Stitching the Stars: Trailblazing Astronomer Maria Mitchell on the Needle as a Double-Edged Instrument of the Mind and Why Women Are Better Suited for Astronomy Than Men
“The eye that directs a needle in the delicate meshes of embroidery will equally well bisect a star with the spider web of the micrometer.”
Chinua Achebe on How Storytelling Helps Us Survive History’s Rough Patches
“There is no one way to anything.”
Albert Camus on the Will to Live and the Most Important Question of Existence
“The body’s judgment is as good as the mind’s… We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.”
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