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David Bowie Answers the Famous Proust Questionnaire By Maria Popova In the 1880s, long before he claimed his status as one of the greatest authors of all time, teenage Marcel Proust (July 10...
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C.S. Lewis on How to Structure the Days of a Creative Life and Train the Receptive Imagination By Maria Popova There are, in my experience, two fundaments of the creative life: putting yourself...
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Inner Space, Outer Space, and How to Be an Astronaut in the Cosmos of Connection: Eric Berne on the Key to True Intimacy By Maria Popova We move among surfaces.
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Orcas and the Price of Consciousness: Lessons in Love and Loss from Earth’s Most Successful and Creative Predator By Maria Popova Marbling the waters of every ocean with their billows of black and...
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Bertrand Russell on the Secret of Happiness By Maria Popova In my darkest hours, what has saved me again and again is some action of unselfing — some instinctive wakefulness to an aspect of the...
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The Weasel and the Meaning of It All: Annie Dillard on How to Live By Maria Popova Suppose we answer the most important question of existence in the affirmative.
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Hermann Hesse on Discovering the Soul Beneath the Self and the Key to Finding Peace By Maria Popova “To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you...
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How to Handle a Narcissistic and Abusive Parent: Kafka’s Remarkable Letter to Father By Maria Popova Franz Kafka (July 3, 1883–June 3, 1924) was one of history’s most prolific and expressive...
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How to Speak Forest By Maria Popova “The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way,” William Blake wrote in his most passionate...
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Nietzsche on How to Find Yourself and the True Value of Education By Maria Popova “Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you?” Elizabeth Gilbert asked in...
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How to Fall in Love Better: A Field Guide to Enlightened Enchantment By Maria Popova Enchantment, J.R.R.
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Emerson on How to Trust Yourself By Maria Popova “I felt down in my soul the clear and unmistakable conviction to disobey all, and pursue my own way,” the young Whitman wrote of his momentous...
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A Stoic’s Key to Peace of Mind: Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety By Maria Popova “The truth is, we know so little about life, we don’t really know what the good news is and what the bad news is,”...
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The Three Elements of the Good Life By Maria Popova To be a true person is to be entirely oneself in every circumstance, with all the courage and vulnerability this requires.
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How to Be a Poet: Elizabeth Alexander on the Yin-Yang of Connection and Contradiction By Maria Popova “The poets (by which I mean all artists) are finally the only people who know the truth about...
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Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life By Maria Popova “I mean to work tremendously hard,” the young Fyodor Dostoyevsky (November 11, 1821–February 9, 1881)...
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The Vampire Problem: The Paradoxical Psychology of Why It Is So Hard to Change By Maria Popova To be human is to suffer from a peculiar congenital blindness: On the precipice of any great change...
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How to Hold the Darkness: Notes on Living Through Uncertainty By Maria Popova There are times in life when the continent of certainty parts underfoot and, as the ash cloud of the old world rains...
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The Science of Waiting and the Art of Delay By Maria Popova “We never live; we are always in the expectation of living,” Voltaire famously lamented.
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Steinbeck and the Difficult Art of the Friend Breakup By Maria Popova “A friend,” wrote the poet and philosopher John O’Donohue in his beautiful meditation on the Ancient Celtic notion of anam...
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