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The Moving Letter James Baldwin Received from His Childhood Teacher at the Peak of His Fame and His Heartbreak

"My first conscious calculation as to how to go about defeating the world's intentions for me," Baldwin would later write of his first cultural outing with Bill, "began on that Saturday afternoon." The defeat was total and triumphant.

— Maria Popova
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Hermann Hesse on Solitude, the Value of Hardship, the Courage to Be Yourself, and How to Find Your Destiny

When destiny comes to a man from outside, it lays him low, just as an arrow lays a deer low. When destiny comes to a man from within, from his innermost being, it makes him strong, it makes him into a god… All sorrow, poison, and death are alien, imposed destiny. But every true act, everything that is good and joyful and fruitful on earth, is lived destiny, destiny that has become self.

2mo ago

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

3mo ago

The human species is engaged in the act of creating itself. We are shaping our own evolution through the choices we make, and this is both our greatest burden and our highest calling.

5mo ago

The human species is engaged in the act of creating itself. We are shaping our own evolution through the choices we make, yet we proceed as though we were merely passive observers of our own development.

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