Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
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Graham Greene • The Quiet American
The Being of Platonic philosophy
Aldous Huxley • The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
Each person is a fathomless mystery, and you have only an outside view of who they are.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
pragmatist.
Haruki Murakami • Kafka on the Shore
He’ll die of idealism, of being right when the world is wrong. He’ll die without knowing what she’s powerless to tell him—that he has helped her. That his heart is as good and as worthy as wood.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
standard: the difficulties of understanding and imitating remain.
Iris Murdoch • The Sovereignty of Good (Routledge Great Minds)
The next step into mystical states carries us into a realm that public opinion and ethical philosophy have long since branded as pathological, though private practice and certain lyrical strains of poetry seem still to bear witness to its ideality