How Not to Waste Your Life

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Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, and with Fangs: The Alchemy of Unrequited Love and the Story Behind Emily Dickinson’s Most Famous Poem

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How to See a Bird: Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris’s Exquisite Illustrated Field Guide to the Wonder of the Winged

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Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Anger, Forgiveness, and What Maturity Really Means

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How to Survive Hopelessness: The Remarkable Story of a Shipwrecked Family

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James Baldwin on How to Live Through Your Darkest Hour and Life as a Moral Obligation to the Universe

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How to Stop Waiting and Start Living: A Jolt from Henry James

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Robert Louis Stevenson on Falling in Love and Loving Beyond the Fall

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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: Uncommonly Lovely Invented Words for What We Feel but Cannot Name

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Ursula K. Le Guin on the Meaning of Life

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J.R.R. Tolkien on Fairy Tales, Language, the Psychology of Fantasy, and Why There’s No Such Thing as Writing “For Children”

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How Nature Imagined the Figment of You

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How to Keep Life from Becoming a Parody of Itself: Simone de Beauvoir on the Art of Growing Older

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A Shelter in Time: John Berger on the Power of Music

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Very Necessary Qualifications of a Great Storyteller

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Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance

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Einstein and the Eagle: How Relativity Is Saving Earth’s Rarest Raptor

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The Three Elements of the Good Life

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An Introvert’s Field Guide to Friendship: Thoreau on the Challenges and Rewards of Candid Connection

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Václav Havel, Writing from Prison, on How to Hold Your Failure

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