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J.R.R. Tolkien on How to Fall in Love with Life

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How To Get Your Government File

To teach students how to think, shut down the WiFi, scramble the cell signal, and send them to weeklong retreats in the deep, dark woods 

The Measure of a Life Well Lived: Henry Miller on How to Grow Old and the Secret of Remaining Young at Heart

A Beginning, Not a Decline: Colette on the Splendor of Autumn and the Autumn of Life

Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent’s Century-Old Meditations on Art and Life

Anita Brookner: Art and Life

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Nick Cave on Integrating the Darkness of Loss with the Bright Ongoingness of Life

The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Dream

All the Ways Reading for Pleasure is Good for Your Mental Health

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