Self Aware

In 1957, Albert Camus (November 7, 1913–January 4, 1960) became the second youngest laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature,…

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“Love is the quality of attention we pay to things,” poet J.D. McClatchy wrote in his beautiful meditation on the…

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Once, while writing my first book, I lived on a lush volcanic island balding with so-called civilization, lawnmowers muffling its…

“Nothing like this has ever happened before or will ever happen again,” a friend said to me about a lucky…

You know it, that awful moment your coherent self-image shatters and a part of you, shadowy and untended, splits off…

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“What exists, exists so that it can be lost and become precious,” Lisel Mueller wrote in her short, stunning poem…

“Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion,” the…