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@brainpicker

Reader. Writer. Bicycle-dependent. Author of "Figuring."

Brooklyn, NY
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    4. 2. 2017

    Lift your heart every Sunday morning with the free Brain Pickings weekly newsletter:

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  2. pred 3 hodinami

    “Tyrants always fear art because tyrants want to mystify while art tends to clarify. The good artist is a vehicle of truth.” Iris Murdoch, one of the vastest and most underappreciated intellects of the past century, on art as a force of resistance

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    “The logic of dreams is superior to the one we exercise while awake. In dreams the mind at last finds its courage: it dares what we do not dare.” Painter, poet, and philosopher Etel Adnan on dreaming and creativity

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    “Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence… I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.” Remembering Emerson, who died on this day in 1882

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    Long before the trailblazing philosopher and political theorist Mary Wollstonecraft, born on this day in 1759, became the founding mother of feminism, she wrote a children's book of moral education, which William Blake illustrated

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    “We ought to try, by the example of our own lives, to prove that life is love and wonder and that that nation is doomed which penalizes those of its citizens who recognize and rejoice in this fact.” Always Baldwin:

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    This was read to me late into the night after a day of inordinate beauty and inordinate sorrow, as a kind of poetic divination—open Adrienne Rich’s hefty collected poems to a random page, read what appears there in the hope that it provides the perfect existential salve. It did.

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  8. pred 10 hodinami

    “The poet’s, the writer’s, duty is … to help man endure by lifting his heart.” William Faulkner's beautiful Nobel Prize acceptance speech:

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  9. pred 11 hodinami

    “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.” Remembering Emerson, who died on this day in 1882 and left us the founding American ideal of self-reliance:

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  10. pred 12 hodinami

    The love letters of philosophers William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, founding mother of feminism, born on this day in 1759 – a beautiful marriage of equals epochs ahead of its time

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    “Sympathy with and understanding of the person one lives with must be cultivated to the last degree possible, because it is a condition of any real and permanent alliance. And it... should go so far... as a frank understanding and tolerance of such person’s other loves.”

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  12. pred 12 hodinami

    If you hear quiet sniffling, that's me listening to 's haunting reading of Adrienne Rich.

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    “Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence… I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.” Remembering Emerson, who died on this day in 1882

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  15. pred 14 hodinami

    The complementarity of multiple loves — the brilliant, forgotten Victorian philosopher and poet Edward Carpenter on how freedom strengthens togetherness in long-term relationships, a century before the modern notion of polyamory

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    This week marks the 29th birthday of the Hubble Space Telescope — that magnificent cosmic eye that challenged us as never before to imagine what may lie beyond the horizons of our own imagination. Adrienne Rich's stunning ode to it, read by :

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  17. pred 16 hodinami

    Emerson died on this day in 1882 and left us his abiding wisdom on living with presence and authenticity

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    Long before the trailblazing philosopher and political theorist Mary Wollstonecraft, born on this day in 1759, became the founding mother of feminism, she wrote a children's book of moral education, which William Blake illustrated

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  19. 27. 4.

    “However meaningless and vain, however dead life appears, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth … steps in and does something.” Van Gogh on fear, taking risk, and how inspired mistakes propel us forward:

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  20. 27. 4.

    Tolstoy's reading list – essential books for every stage of life, from childhood to old age

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  21. 26. 4.

    “Finding the words is another step in learning to see.” Lovely short read

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