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the detail that would come to define her: pursuit of beauty by way of collecting art.
Natalie Dykstra • Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
What exactly does it mean to make use of these countless sources?
Arlette Farge • The Allure of the Archives (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)
read The Emperor of Scent, by Chandler Burr,
Timothy Ferriss • Tools Of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
That gift of grace and absolution from a murdered Jew (exactly the gift that lies at the heart of Christianity) is what millions of people are so eager to find in Frank’s hiding place, in her writings, in her “legacy.”
Dara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
rarefaction
Gilbert Adair • Love and Death on Long Island: A Novel
We are, I think, for reasons that are not altogether clear to me, standing sentinel because we are encountering not a treasure in quite the same sense that Arendt suggests here, but something like its distant echo—the rumor of a mode of life we’ve forgotten or been denied.
L. M. Sacasas • Laughter In Dark Times
We can never move definitively from ignorance to certainty, for the thread of the inquiry will constantly lead us back to ignorance again.
Sarah Bakewell • At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others
a printed document was charged with intention; its simplest and most obvious goal was to be read by others.