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No One You Love Is Ever Dead: Hemingway on the Most Devastating of Losses and the Meaning of Life
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Walt Whitman’s Field Guide to Being Yourself: The Trial and Triumph of Leaves of Grass
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Mary Oliver’s Advice on Writing
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The Thing Itself: C.S. Lewis on What We Long for in Our Existential Longing
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A habit is a spell you cast upon yourself that only you...
William James on the Psychology of Habit
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Christopher Hitchens on Mortality
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Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance
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One of the commonest and most corrosive human reflexes is to react...