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Laurel Berger

 

Simple Living

I did not go to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. I did not go to the woods.

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The Magic of Untidiness

I am unpacking my library. The initial author of that line, Walter Benjamin, understood that a book collector’s passion “borders on the chaos of memories.” […]

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