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Willa Cather on the Majesty of the Cosmos and the Capacity for Wonder That Makes Us Wonderful
Willa Cather on the Majesty of the Cosmos and the Capacity for Wonder That Makes Us Wonderful

“Jupiter and Venus both shining in the golden-rosy sky… I can’t but believe that all that majesty and all that beauty, those fated and unfailing appearances and exits, are something more than mathematics and horrible temperatures.”

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Lost Cat: An Illustrated Meditation on Love, Loss, and What It Means To Be Human
Lost Cat: An Illustrated Meditation on Love, Loss, and What It Means To Be Human

“You can never know anyone as completely as you want. But that’s okay, love is better.”

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Wondrous the Merge: Why Love Knows No Boundaries
Wondrous the Merge: Why Love Knows No Boundaries

“At the moment I cannot ask the future or the end. I am too exhilarant and purry. It is a miracle.”

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February 25, 1956: Sylvia Plath Meets Ted Hughes in One of Literary History’s Steamiest Encounters
February 25, 1956: Sylvia Plath Meets Ted Hughes in One of Literary History’s Steamiest Encounters

“He ripped the red hair band from her head and ravished her with such force that her silver earrings came unclipped from her ears.”

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Illustrator Sophie Blackall on Subversive Storytelling, Missed Connections, and Optimism
Illustrator Sophie Blackall on Subversive Storytelling, Missed Connections, and Optimism

What Aldous Huxley’s misogyny has to do with children’s books, darkness, and modern love.

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How Attractive Are You To The Opposite Sex? Esquire’s 1949 Questionnaire
How Attractive Are You To The Opposite Sex? Esquire’s 1949 Questionnaire

“Almost any man can stand almost any amount of flattery.”

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On Loves, Lunacies, and Losses: The Little-Known Poetry of Mark Twain
On Loves, Lunacies, and Losses: The Little-Known Poetry of Mark Twain

“Advance your cue and shut your eyes / And take the cushion first.”

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The Proud Surrender: Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Love Letters to Edith Wynn Matthison
The Proud Surrender: Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Love Letters to Edith Wynn Matthison

“This is not meekness, be assured; I do not come naturally by meekness.”

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Anaïs Nin on Real Love, Illustrated by Debbie Millman
Anaïs Nin on Real Love, Illustrated by Debbie Millman

“Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.”

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A Century-Old Field Guide to the Art of Kissing
A Century-Old Field Guide to the Art of Kissing

“Like a bee that settles on the fragrant pistils of a flower, and sips in the nectar for honey, so should you sip in the nectar from between the lips of your love.”

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