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Not yet does he understand that there is a my way and a your way, but that there is no “the” way.
Irvin D. Yalom • When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession


I took a medium-sized bottle of Jim Beam and drank from it under the covers while reading No Man Is an Island by Thomas Merton. Without God, we are no longer persons. We become dumb animals under pain, happy if we can behave at least like quiet animals and die without too much confusion.
Maggie Nelson • The Red Parts
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Alan Jacobs • How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds
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Literature not only illuminated another’s experience, it provided, I believed, the richest material for moral reflection.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
John O’Donohue, a former Irish Catholic priest, philosopher, poet, and, in his own words, mystic