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Edna St. Vincent Millay on the Death Penalty and What It Really Means to Be an Anarchist
Edna St. Vincent Millay on the Death Penalty and What It Really Means to Be an Anarchist

“The minds of your children are like clear pools, reflecting faithfully whatever passes on the bank…”

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Against Cynicism: Isaac Asimov on the Case for Optimism about the Human Spirit
Against Cynicism: Isaac Asimov on the Case for Optimism about the Human Spirit

Why cynicism is, above all, a disservice to our own happiness.

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Censorship and What Freedom of Speech Really Means: Comedian Bill Hicks’s Brilliant Letter to a Priest
Censorship and What Freedom of Speech Really Means: Comedian Bill Hicks’s Brilliant Letter to a Priest

“‘Freedom of speech’ means you support the right of people to say exactly those ideas which you do not agree with.”

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Kafka on Books and What Reading Does for the Human Spirit
Kafka on Books and What Reading Does for the Human Spirit

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.”

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Van Gogh and Mental Illness
Van Gogh and Mental Illness

“One feels as if one were lying bound hand and foot at the bottom of a deep dark well, utterly helpless.”

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Tchaikovsky on the “Immeasurable Bliss” of Creativity, the Mystical Machinery of Inspiration, and the Evils of Interruptions
Tchaikovsky on the “Immeasurable Bliss” of Creativity, the Mystical Machinery of Inspiration, and the Evils of Interruptions

The creative process, cracked open at its rawest.

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Maya Angelou’s Beautiful Letter to Her Younger Self
Maya Angelou’s Beautiful Letter to Her Younger Self

“Be courageous, but not foolhardy.”

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Willa Cather on Making Art Through Troubled Times: A Moving Letter to Her Younger Brother
Willa Cather on Making Art Through Troubled Times: A Moving Letter to Her Younger Brother

“The test of one’s decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found out that one can never please the people they wanted to please.”

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The Breathtaking Love Letters of Violet Trefusis and Vita Sackville-West
The Breathtaking Love Letters of Violet Trefusis and Vita Sackville-West

“All the hoardings of my imagination I have laid bare to you. There isn’t a recess in my brain into which you haven’t penetrated.”

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Children’s Endearing Letters to Judy Blume About Masturbation, and the Beloved Author’s Response
Children’s Endearing Letters to Judy Blume About Masturbation, and the Beloved Author’s Response

“Dear Judy, I want to ask you a very important question…”

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