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Anaïs Nin on why emotional excess is essential for creativity themarginalian.org/2012/09/0…
Anna Dostoyevskaya on the secret to a happy marriage – wisdom from one of history's truest and most beautiful loves themarginalian.org/2016/02/1…
The 3 Buddhist steps to repairing a relationship themarginalian.org/2021/10/1…
Iris Murdoch on the five phases of freedom, in literature and life themarginalian.org/2022/05/2…
"There is no place more intimate than the spirit alone."
May Sarton's stunning century-old ode to solitude themarginalian.org/2017/12/0…
The weasel and the meaning of it all – Annie Dillard on how to live themarginalian.org/2025/10/1…
Einstein on the secret to learning anything, in a letter of advice to his own son themarginalian.org/2013/06/1…
The map to the route of your life themarginalian.org/2026/10/1…
How to be an instrument of kindness in a harsh world – George Saunders on unthinking the mind, unstorying the self, and the 3 antidotes to your suffering themarginalian.org/2026/01/2…
If your soul could use wings today, this: The Young People's Chorus of New York City sings bird divinations themarginalian.org/2026/10/3…
For an act of resistance to the tyranny of algorithms, try the Marginalian newsletter, which turned 20 this month — undistracted notes on the search for meaning through art, science, philosophy, poetry, and various other tendrils of wonder — a one-woman labor of love that remains free, ad-free, AI-free, and fully human: themarginalian.org/newslette…
Why leaves change color and how we become who we are – the science of chlorophyll (which is still a mystery) and the poetics of personhood (which is always a mystery) themarginalian.org/2021/10/2…
How to delight in your days – poet and gardener Ross Gay's yearlong experiment in fierce gladness themarginalian.org/2019/12/0…
Nobel laureate Albert Camus on the 3 antidotes to the absurdity of life themarginalian.org/2017/07/2…
A Stoic's key to peace of mind – Seneca's antidote to anxiety, effective 2,000 years later themarginalian.org/2017/08/2…
This is such a wonderful perspective: Richard Dawkins on the luckiness of death themarginalian.org/2021/07/2…
How do you know that you love, really love, somebody? A litmus test from philosopher Martha Nussbaum and Proust themarginalian.org/2017/01/1…
The best thing ever written on how to live with the fundamental fear of loss that haunts all love themarginalian.org/2019/02/2…
"solitude is not
a glass hedge
between life and love
but a mirror to see each other
with a heart amplified
by the time attended
in the house of enough"
...and 19 other truths about life from 20 years of The Marginalian, cast in clay and lichen themarginalian.org/2026/10/1…
"The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body."
Gorgeous read themarginalian.org/2022/10/1…
