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Reads tagged with “G.K. Chesterton”

Three Ways of Being: Life as Fairy Tale, Novel, or Poem
Three Ways of Being: Life as Fairy Tale, Novel, or Poem

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The Dandelion and the Meaning of Life: G.K. Chesterton on How to Dig for the “Submerged Sunrise of Wonder”
The Dandelion and the Meaning of Life: G.K. Chesterton on How to Dig for the “Submerged Sunrise of Wonder”

Recovering the “forgotten blaze or burst of astonishment at our own existence” alive in the back of our modernity-deadened minds.

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Love, Music, Solitude, and How to Be More Alive: The Best of The Marginalian 2022
Love, Music, Solitude, and How to Be More Alive: The Best of The Marginalian 2022

From Emily Dickinson to Bruce Springsteen, by way of galaxies and gardening.

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G.K. Chesterton on How to Find Perspective in the Age of Opinion
G.K. Chesterton on How to Find Perspective in the Age of Opinion

“A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.”

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