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“Little Prince” Author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on How a Simple Human Smile Saved His Life
“Little Prince” Author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on How a Simple Human Smile Saved His Life

“Care granted to the sick, welcome offered to the banished, forgiveness itself are worth nothing without a smile enlightening the deed.”

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Hope Is a Girl Selling Fruit: A Heartening Illustrated Parable of Self-Actualization by a Young Indian Artist and Storyteller
Hope Is a Girl Selling Fruit: A Heartening Illustrated Parable of Self-Actualization by a Young Indian Artist and Storyteller

A beautiful illustrated celebration of women’s journey toward creative freedom and mobility.

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19-Year-Old Italo Calvino on How to Assert Yourself and Live with Integrity
19-Year-Old Italo Calvino on How to Assert Yourself and Live with Integrity

“Asserting oneself … doesn’t mean asserting a name and a person. It means asserting oneself with all that one has inside, and what he has inside, underneath that pigeon chest, is taking on more and more precise contours.”

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Fictitious Dishes: Elegant and Imaginative Photographs of Meals from Famous Literature
Fictitious Dishes: Elegant and Imaginative Photographs of Meals from Famous Literature

From James Joyce to Maurice Sendak, by way of weep-worthy jelly and gifted chickens.

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The World’s Oldest Living Things: A Decade-Long Photographic Masterpiece at the Intersection of Art, Science, and Philosophy
The World’s Oldest Living Things: A Decade-Long Photographic Masterpiece at the Intersection of Art, Science, and Philosophy

What a 13,000-year-old eucalyptus tree reveals about the meaning of human life.

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Mr. Bliss: Tolkien’s Little-Known Children’s Book for His Own Kids, Lovingly Handwritten and Illustrated by the Author Himself
Mr. Bliss: Tolkien’s Little-Known Children’s Book for His Own Kids, Lovingly Handwritten and Illustrated by the Author Himself

“‘What color?’ said Mr. Binks. ‘Bright yellow,’ said Mr. Bliss, ‘inside and out.'”

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Kurt Vonnegut’s Advice to the Young
Kurt Vonnegut’s Advice to the Young

“Teaching, may I say, is the noblest profession of all in a democracy.”

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The Science of Humor and the Humor of Science: A Brilliant 1969 Reflection on Laughter as Self-Defense Against Automation
The Science of Humor and the Humor of Science: A Brilliant 1969 Reflection on Laughter as Self-Defense Against Automation

“Our life has become so mechanized and electronified that one needs some kind of an elixir to make it bearable at all. And what is this elixir if not humor?”

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Zelda Fitzgerald’s Little-Known Art
Zelda Fitzgerald’s Little-Known Art

From Alice in Wonderland to Times Square, a delicate dance of the imagination.

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The Art of Practical Wisdom
The Art of Practical Wisdom

The psychology of how we use frames, categories, and storytelling to make sense of the world.

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