Maria PopovaOvjeren akaunt

@brainpicker

Reader. Writer. Bicycle-dependent. Author of . Maker of .

Brooklyn, NY
Vrijeme pridruživanja: listopad 2007.

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  1. Prikvačeni tweet

    "How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me." is out today. The story of the Auden poem in the epigraph, with a stunning reading by :

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  2. “Leave something of sweetness and substance in the mouth of the world.”

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  3. “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” Abiding wisdom from Simone Weil, born on this day in 1909:

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  4. One year ago today, I lost my darling friend Emily Levine, who introduced me to the splendor and solace of poetry. Without her, there would be no . This is the last poem she read to me shortly before returning her stardust to the universe:

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  5. Patti Smith on the love of libraries and the transformative power of reading – a touching recollection of her childhood, involving book-earned bronchitis and her mother’s “sympathetic exasperation”

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  6. “Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.” Bertrand Russell died on this day in 1970, at 97, having learned how to grow old:

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  7. “We always keep the dearest things to ourselves.” James Joyce was born on this day in 1882. As a teenager, he sent this wonderful letter of appreciation to his greatest hero:

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  8. “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.” Bertrand Russell died on this day in 1970, after 97 wise years, and bequeathed us his 10 timeless commandments of critical thinking:

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    “Anyone with any degree of mental toughness ought to be able to exist without the things they like most for a few months at least.” Georgia O'Keeffe on art, life, and setting priorities

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    When debate is futile – remembering Bertrand Russell (who died on this day in 1970 with a Nobel Prize and the consolation of his unfaltering personal integrity) with his magnificent response to a fascist's provocation

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  11. 2. velj

    "As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate." E.B. White's wonderful letter to a man who had lost faith in humanity:

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    Remembering Bertrand Russell, who died on this day in 1970 after 97 wise and largehearted years of life, with his superb Nobel Prize acceptance speech on the 4 desires motivating all human behavior

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  13. 2. velj

    Patti Smith on libraries and the transformative love of books – a touching recollection of her childhood weekend ritual

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  14. 2. velj

    Weekly highlights: Music, loneliness, and transcendence; an 18th-century woman's stunning illustrated encyclopedia of medicinal plants; the heartbreak of Hans Christian Andersen

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  15. 2. velj

    “If you don’t understand yourself you don’t understand anybody else.” James Baldwin's magnificent forgotten conversation with poet Nikki Giovanni when she was only 28 and ablaze with genius

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  16. 2. velj

    “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.” Bertrand Russell died on this day in 1970, after 97 wise years, and bequeathed us his 10 timeless commandments of critical thinking:

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  17. 2. velj

    “We always keep the dearest things to ourselves.” James Joyce was born on this day in 1882. As a teenager, he sent this touching letter of appreciation to his greatest hero:

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  18. 2. velj

    “Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.” Bertrand Russell died on this day in 1970, at 97, having learned how to grow old:

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  19. 2. velj

    The year is 1617. A spindly middle-aged mathematician and astrologer with bad skin and a boundless mind is racing through the icy German countryside to save his mother from the witchcraft trial in which his epoch-making scientific theories have landed her:

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  20. 2. velj

    A lovely illustrated celebration of delight as a daily practice and the truest, deepest sources of happiness

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  21. 2. velj

    How tender and beautiful these letters between Johannes Brahms and Clara Schumann are, and how they reveal the limitations of the labels we use to categorize human relationships, their ill-fitting smallness in holding the largest matters of the heart

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