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Love Beyond Label: The Tender Letters of Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms
“I would gladly write to you only by means of music, but I have things to say to you to-day which music could not express.”
A Partnership Larger Than Marriage: The Stunning Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran and Mary Haskell
“You are like the Great Spirit, who befriends man not only to share his life, but to add to it. My knowing you is the greatest thing in my days and nights, a miracle quite outside the natural order of things.”
The Monarchs, Music, and the Meaning of Life: The Most Touching Deathbed Love Letter Ever Written
From butterflies to Beethoven, an ode to the heart’s uncontainable dimensions.
Simone de Beauvoir on How Chance and Choice Converge to Make Us Who We Are
“My life… runs back through time and space to the very beginnings of the world and to its utmost limits. In my being I sum up the earthly inheritance and the state of the world at this moment.”
Nobel Laureate André Gide on the Freedom of Expression and the Vital Role of Art as Both Insurgency and Acceptance
“The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.”
Alchemy and the Transmutation of Ignorance Into Truth: Lewis Thomas’s Prescient 1983 Manifesto for the Humanity-Saving Value of Social Science
“In all of nature there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.”
Philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft on the Imagination and Its Seductive Power in Human Relationships
“These emotions … appear to me to be the distinctive characteristic of genius, the foundation of taste, and of that exquisite relish for the beauties of nature, of which the common herd of eaters and drinkers and child-begeters, certainly have no idea.”
Legendary Anthropologist Margaret Mead on Work, Leisure, and Creativity
“If we make one criterion for defining the artist… the impulse to make something new… — a kind of divine discontent with all that has gone before, however good — then we can find such artists at every level of human culture, even when performing acts of great simplicity.”
Art in the Light of Conscience: The Great Russian Poet Marina Tsvetaeva on Loving vs. Understanding and the Paradoxical Psychology of Our Resistance to Ideas
“Not to go onwards (in verse, as in everything) means to go backwards — that is, to leave the scene.”
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