Books that have shaped me

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The Second Sex
Amazon.com: The Second Sex (9780307277787): De Beauvoir, Simone, Borde, Constance, Malovany-Chevallier, Sheila: Books
The Alchemist Book By Paulo Coelho, ('tp')
The Alchemist, Book by Paulo Coelho (Paperback) | www.chapters.indigo.ca
Duino Elegies by RAINER MARIA RILKE | Indigo Chapters
Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelicorders? and even if one of them pressed mesuddenly to his heart: I'd be consumedin that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothingbut the beginning of terror, which we can just barely endure, and we stand in awe of it as it coolly disdainsto destroy us. Every angel is terrifying.-from "The First Elegy"Over the last fifteen years, in his two volumes of New Poems as well as in The Book of Images and Uncollected Poems, Edward Snow has emerged as one of Rainer Maria Rilke's most able English-language interpreters. In his translations, Snow adheres faithfully to the intent of Rilke's German while constructing nuanced, colloquial poems in English. Written in a period of spiritual crisis between 1912 and 1922, the poems that compose the Duino
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment: Tolle, Eckhart: 9781577314806: Amazon.com: Books
Great Thinkers by The School of Life
Great Thinkers : Hardback : The School of Life Press : 9780993538704 : 0993538703 : 30 Jan 2018 : A unique selection of the greatest thinkers from the fields of philosophy, political theory, sociology, art, architecture and literature, with enjoyable profiles of what they have to teach to us today.