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admin You wouldn’t know it, looking at the tiny elderly woman in the white lab...
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The Philosopher-Naturalist John Burroughs on What Makes a Great Poem and a Great Person – The Marginalian
A person is a perpetual ongoingness perpetually mistaking itself for a still point. We...
Fernando Pessoa on Unselfing into Who You Really Are – The Marginalian
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How Humanity Saved the Ginkgo – The Marginalian
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Or, How to Write the Book of Love – The Marginalian
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Frederic Edwin Church’s Immersive 19th-century Paintings of Natural Wonders – The Marginalian
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Arundhati Roy on the Deepest Measure of Success – The Marginalian
Evolution invented REM sleep, that ministry of dreams, to give us a safe way...
An Illustrated Fable about How to Live with Loneliness and What It Means to Love, Inspired by a Real NASA Discovery – The Marginalian
On July 26, 2022, as I was living through a period of acute loneliness...
Virginia Woolf on Love – The Marginalian
“I think we moderns lack love,” Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882–March 28, 1941) diagnosed...