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Philip K. Dick On The Universe Contemplating Itself
I wonder what the machines will think.
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Marcus Aurelius on Why it Should be Difficult
What stands in the way becomes the way.
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George Eliot on Saying Buh-Bye to Summer
If I were a bird, I would fly about the earth seeking successive autumns.
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Kierkegaard on Looking Back and Living Now
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Keats on Autumn Before Pumpkin-Spiced Lattes
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
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Kierkegaard on Looking Back and Living Now
Melville On Opting Out Of The Digital Age
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Busting out of Platform Prison
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Aristotle on The Necessity of High-Brow Mischief
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H.G. Wells on Where Science Meets the Spiritual
Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.
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Aristotle on The Necessity of High-Brow Mischief
Wit is well-bred insolence.
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Virginia Woolf On Dancing With The Stars And Non-Human Biologics
When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter, do they?
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Melville On Opting Out Of The Digital Age
I would prefer not to. - Herman Melville. Bartleby is a mystery, one that has fascinated readers and literary critics alike. Is he a Christ figure? A…
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Busting out of Platform Prison
Confessions of a content creator in search of new digs
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Edna St. Vincent Millay On Vitality Over Longevity
My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; But ah, my foes and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
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Langston Hughes on hard-won wisdom
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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