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To make the world more beautiful, Emma embraces the joy and vulnerability of dancing with abandon – on a subway platform ...
once prayed 40 times a day; now, he wanders through northern Italy reflecting on freedom. He is a postdoctoral researcher in political philosophy at the University of Pavia.
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Helen Keller describes an ecstatic trans-sensory encounter with Beethoven’s Ninth – in a letter read by Gillian Anderson ...
I find myself in the heart of a vast sea of mourners. Everyone is dressed in black, yet this is no funeral of despair – it is a procession of devotion. Under the scorching sun of Iraq, we walk ...
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