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Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

by Katherine May

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Jan 31, 2025 11:05AM

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Beautyland

by Marie-Helene Bertino (Goodreads Author)

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May 27, 2024 10:26AM

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A Natural History of the Senses

by Diane Ackerman (Goodreads Author)

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“And when it eats—what a wild mess—when it gathers a tangle of bloodworms into its mouth, you will understand how a galaxy first learns to spin in the dark, and how it begins to grow and grow.”
― Aimee Nezhukumatathil, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments

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“It was never worth worrying about someone you didn’t love. And it wasn’t love if you didn’t worry.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

tags: love, love-quotes, worry

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“It isn’t a sadness, but a joy, that we don’t do the same things for the length of our lives.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

tags: joy, life, philosophy, repetition, sadness

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“It’s an authentic and elevating response to the problem of being alive in a deeply flawed yet stubbornly beautiful world.”
― Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

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