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Kahlil Gibran on the Courage to Weather the Uncertainties of Love

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What borders are really about, and what we do with them; we are a quilt; why justice isn’t enough

“Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.”

Bertrand Russell on what makes a fulfilling life, an illustrated celebration of the many meanings and manifestations of love, an immigrant’s tale

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