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Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories by Ernest Hemingway

Grove Press, the Evergreen Review, and the Incorporation of t... by Loren Glass

Avant-Garde

5 books — 3 voters

Dionysius Longinus On The Sublime by Longinus

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the S... by Edmund Burke

Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime by Immanuel Kant

American Technological Sublime by David E. Nye

Books of Wonder, Awe and the Sublime

7 books — 1 voter

The Last Syllable by Valeriano Diviacchi

At the Existentialist Café by Sarah Bakewell

The Existentialist's Survival Guide by Gordon Marino

Existentialism

11 books — 3 voters

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“ You are not limited to this body, to this mind, or to this reality—you are a limitless ocean of Consciousness, imbued with infinite potential. You are existence itself. ”
― Joseph P. Kauffman, The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom

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“ What can we make of the inexpressible joy of children? It is a kind of gratitude, I think—the gratitude of the ten-year-old who wakes to her own energy and the brisk challenge of the world. You thought you knew the place and all its routines, but you see you hadn’t known. Whole stacks at the library held books devoted to things you knew nothing about. The boundary of knowledge receded, as you poked about in books, like Lake Erie’s rim as you climbed its cliffs. And each area of knowledge disclos ...more ”
― Annie Dillard, An American Childhood

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