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The Marginalianby Maria Popova6 Sept 2026
The True Purpose of Tarot By Maria Popova “Nothing like this has ever happened before or will ever happen again,” a friend said to me about a lucky turn of events — a statement that struck me as...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova6 Sept 2026
How to Apologize: Reflections on Forgiveness, Self-Forgiveness, and the Vulnerabilities of Being Human By Maria Popova Few things in life are more painful than seeing ourselves act in ways...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova6 Sept 2026
Erich Fromm’s 6 Rules of Listening: The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist on the Art of Unselfish Understanding By Maria Popova “An experience makes its appearance only when it is being...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova5 Sept 2026
How to Relate to Your Worst Mistakes: The Life-Shaping Difference Between Regret and Remorse By Maria Popova You know it, that awful moment your coherent self-image shatters and a part of you...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova5 Sept 2026
How Two Souls Can Interact with One Another: Simone de Beauvoir on Love and Friendship By Maria Popova It is in relationships that we discover both our depths and our limits, there that we anneal...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova5 Sept 2026
The Most Important Thing to Remember About Your Mother By Maria Popova One of the hardest realizations in life, and one of the most liberating, is that our mothers are neither saints nor saviors —...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova4 Sept 2026
How to Handle Provocation: Bertrand Russell’s Remarkable Response to a Fascist By Maria Popova “To approach someone else convincingly you must do so with open arms and head held high, and your arms...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova4 Sept 2026
The Art of Choosing Love Over Not-Love: Rumi’s Antidote to Our Human Tragedy By Maria Popova “What exists, exists so that it can be lost and become precious,” Lisel Mueller wrote in her short...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova4 Sept 2026
The Power of Being a Threshold Person: Liminality, Communitas, and the Anti-structures of Possibility By Maria Popova “All things are so very uncertain, and that’s exactly what makes me feel...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova4 Sept 2026
Everything Is Already There: Javier Marías on the Courage to Heed Your Intuitions By Maria Popova It starts with a tremble in the stomach, a palpitation in the chest.
The Marginalianby Maria Popova3 Sept 2026
Wendell Berry on Solitude and the Two Great Enemies of Creative Work By Maria Popova “One can’t write directly about the soul,” Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary.
The Marginalianby Maria Popova3 Sept 2026
The Creative Power of Uncertainty: Polish Poet Wisława Szymborska’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech By Maria Popova “Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later.
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Italo Calvino on Reading and Sex By Maria Popova “I function only by falling in love: with French and France; with the 15th Century; with microbiology, cosmology, sleep research,” Ursula K.
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The Paradox of Knowing Who You Are and What You Want: Cristina Campo on Fairy Tales, Time, and the Meaning of Maturity By Maria Popova “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy...
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Wendell Berry on Hope, Despair, and the Measure of Effective Protest By Maria Popova The current of life is charged by the poles of hope and despair.
The Marginalianby Maria Popova2 Sept 2026
How to Have Enough: Wendell Berry on Creativity and Love By Maria Popova “Enough is so vast a sweetness, I suppose it never occurs, only pathetic counterfeits,” Emily Dickinson sighed in one of her...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova2 Sept 2026
The Invention of Zero: How Ancient Mesopotamia Created the Mathematical Concept of Nought and Ancient India Gave It Symbolic Form By Maria Popova If the ancient Arab world had closed its gates to...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova2 Sept 2026
The Thing Itself: C.S. Lewis on What We Long for in Our Existential Longing By Maria Popova Nothing kidnaps our capacity for presence more cruelly than longing.
The Marginalianby Maria Popova1 Sept 2026
The 3 Buddhist Steps to Repairing a Relationship By Maria Popova One fact that never fails to astound me: Despite the immense cultural changes and leaps in knowledge over the epochs, the human...
The Marginalianby Maria Popova1 Sept 2026
How Do We Know What We Want: Milan Kundera on the Central Ambivalences of Life and Love By Maria Popova “Live as if you were living already for the second time,” Viktor Frankl wrote in his 1946...
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