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Artist Louise Bourgeois on How Solitude Enriches Creative Work
Artist Louise Bourgeois on How Solitude Enriches Creative Work

“You are born alone. You die alone. The value of the space in between is trust and love.”

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Albert Camus on the Three Antidotes to the Absurdity of Life
Albert Camus on the Three Antidotes to the Absurdity of Life

“In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among men, a greater sincerity.”

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The Log from the Sea of Cortez: John Steinbeck’s Forgotten Masterpiece on How to Think and the Art of Seeing the Pattern Beyond the Particular
The Log from the Sea of Cortez: John Steinbeck’s Forgotten Masterpiece on How to Think and the Art of Seeing the Pattern Beyond the Particular

“Everything impinges on everything else… Everything is potentially everywhere.”

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bell hooks on the Power of Being in the Margins
bell hooks on the Power of Being in the Margins

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The Enemy Outside and the Enemy Within: Audre Lorde’s Antidote to Despair
The Enemy Outside and the Enemy Within: Audre Lorde’s Antidote to Despair

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Hermann Hesse on How to Hear the Wisdom of the Inner Voice
Hermann Hesse on How to Hear the Wisdom of the Inner Voice

“If you are now wondering where to look for consolation, where to seek a new and better God… he does not come to us from books, he lives within us… This God is in you too. He is most particularly in you, the dejected and despairing.”

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How to Live Fully: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Remedy for Our Resistance to Change
How to Live Fully: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Remedy for Our Resistance to Change

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Truth, Fact, and the Patterning of Reality: Virginia Woolf on How We Come to Know the World
Truth, Fact, and the Patterning of Reality: Virginia Woolf on How We Come to Know the World

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In Praise of the Useless: Bertrand Russell’s Salve for Hard Times
In Praise of the Useless: Bertrand Russell’s Salve for Hard Times

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Zadie Smith on the Courage to Be More Than Yourself
Zadie Smith on the Courage to Be More Than Yourself

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