Brain Pickings by Maria Popova

Reading for Life: Polish Poet Aleksander Wat on How Books Helped Him Survive in a Soviet Prison

Reading for Life: Polish Poet Aleksander Wat on How Books Helped Him Survive in a Soviet Prison

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“I had a great desire to live because I found Nietzsche’s amor fati in every trifle in every book, even the pessimistic ones. The more pessimistic the book, the more pulsating energy, life energy, I felt beneath its surface — as if all of literature were only the praise of life’s beauty, of all of …

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