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Feb 25
What We Bring to the Shuffle
Italo Calvino,
Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have ...
Feb 21
What the Wall Returns
Leonardo da Vinci,
A Treatise on Painting (Trattato della pittura)
I cannot forbear to mention among these precepts a new device for study which, although it may seem ...
Feb 4
A Single Taste
Friedrich Nietzsche,
The Gay Science
One thing is needful.— To 'give style' to one's character—a great and rare art! It is practiced by t...
Jan 20
The Demon and the Windowpane
George Orwell,
Why I Write
Sheer egoism. Desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, to get your o...