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Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Jean-Paul Sartre, featured in Letters to Sartre
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People usually think that knowledge and love are entirely different mental activities. To me … they are fundamentally the same. This activity is the union of subject and object. It is the activity in which the self unites with things … And why is love the union of subject and object? To love something is to cast away the self and unite with that other.
— Kitarō Nishida (西田 幾多郎)
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— Megan Fernandes, “I’m Smarter than this Feeling, but Am I?” from I Do Everything I’m Told
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Depiction of an antelope carved into a rock in Tin Taghirt, in the Tassili n’Ajjer region of southern Algeria. This art and other artifacts like it are estimated to date from 10,000 to 6,000 years ago.
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New York City ballet production of Midsummer Nights Dream
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A cottage kitchen can look unexpectedly dramatic treated to rich, contrasting colours. Here, green and crimson make an effective foil for the buttery glaze of brown and cream slipware.
Country Kitchens, 1991
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