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themarginalian.org
How to Keep Criticism from Sinking Your Soul: Walt Whitman and the Discipline of Creative Confidence

each point of E.'s statement was unanswerable, no judge's charge ever more complete or convincing, I could never hear the points better put — and then I felt down in my soul the clear and unmistakable conviction to disobey all, and pursue my own way.

— Walt Whitman
2w ago

The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

1mo ago
honest-broker.com
Montaigne and the Origins of Substack

That's because his essays covered many topics but really had only one subject—namely Montaigne himself, with all his quirks and opinions and hot takes. His essays marked a milestone in the history of individualism.

2mo ago

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