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Oscar Wilde’s Stirring Love Letters to Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas
Oscar Wilde’s Stirring Love Letters to Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas

“It is a marvel that those red rose-leaf lips of yours should be made no less for the madness of music and song than for the madness of kissing.”

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Iconic Graphic Designer Milton Glaser on Art, Education, and the Kindness of the Universe
Iconic Graphic Designer Milton Glaser on Art, Education, and the Kindness of the Universe

“If you perceive the universe as being a universe of abundance, then it will be. If you think of the universe as one of scarcity, then it will be.”

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The Seducer’s Cookbook: A Vintage Guide to the Lost Art of Seduction
The Seducer’s Cookbook: A Vintage Guide to the Lost Art of Seduction

“Seduction … is becoming as much of a lost art as hand-caning and bookbinding. But while those two crafts can be replaced by machine work, seduction, if it is not done ‘by hand,’ will not be done at all.”

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Darwin’s Life, Adapted in Poems by His Great-Great-Granddaughter
Darwin’s Life, Adapted in Poems by His Great-Great-Granddaughter

“He is the most transparent man I ever saw and most affectionate.”

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Love Over Biology: Jennifer Finney Boylan on What It’s Like to Be a Transgender Parent
Love Over Biology: Jennifer Finney Boylan on What It’s Like to Be a Transgender Parent

Why there’s much more to the art of raising a human being than the science of chromosomal alignment.

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How Relationships Refine Our Truths: Adrienne Rich on the Responsibility of Love
How Relationships Refine Our Truths: Adrienne Rich on the Responsibility of Love

“We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.”

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Turning Abruptly from Friendship to Love: Sartre’s Piercing Love Letter to Simone Jollivet
Turning Abruptly from Friendship to Love: Sartre’s Piercing Love Letter to Simone Jollivet

“I am mastering my love for you and turning it inwards as a constituent element of myself.”

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How Charles Eames Proposed to Ray Eames: His Disarming 1941 Handwritten Love Letter
How Charles Eames Proposed to Ray Eames: His Disarming 1941 Handwritten Love Letter

A modernist fairy tale of true partnership.

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Swiss Philosopher Henri-Frédéric Amiel on Love, Its Torments, and Its Redemptions
Swiss Philosopher Henri-Frédéric Amiel on Love, Its Torments, and Its Redemptions

“Do not amend by reasoning, but by example; approach feeling by feeling; do not hope to excite love except by love.”

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Space for Equality: NASA Joins the <em>It Gets Better</em> Project
Space for Equality: NASA Joins the It Gets Better Project

“It’s becoming the new normal — you’re being defined by your character and not by whom you love.”

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