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Susan Sontag on Love: Illustrated Diary Excerpts
Susan Sontag on Love: Illustrated Diary Excerpts

“Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love.”

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Bill Plympton’s Quirky Animated Guides to Kissing and Lovemaking
Bill Plympton’s Quirky Animated Guides to Kissing and Lovemaking

“Here’s to every him and miss who loves a pure and sunny kiss.”

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Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“The useless days will add up to something… These things are your becoming.”

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Book Spine Poetry vol. 6: A Working Theory of Love
Book Spine Poetry vol. 6: A Working Theory of Love

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Limbic Revision and How Love Rewires the Brain
Limbic Revision and How Love Rewires the Brain

“Who we are and who we become depends, in part, on whom we love.”

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Book Spine Poetry: The Spark of Love
Book Spine Poetry: The Spark of Love

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This Is a Monomania: Balzac on Falling in Love
This Is a Monomania: Balzac on Falling in Love

“I cannot bring together two ideas that you do not interpose yourself between them.”

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Vita Sackville-West’s Love Letter to Virginia Woolf
Vita Sackville-West’s Love Letter to Virginia Woolf

“I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia.”

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Jesse Bering on the Adaptive Value and Neurochemistry of Heartbreak
Jesse Bering on the Adaptive Value and Neurochemistry of Heartbreak

The science of why it’s possible to actually die of a broken heart.

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Alan Turing: Church, State, and the Tragedy of Gender-Defiant Genius
Alan Turing: Church, State, and the Tragedy of Gender-Defiant Genius

On the man who was caught between the past and the future in clothes a size too small, and profoundly changed our lives anyway.

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