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On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Suicide of a Poet

Two of Ahenry's friends killed themselves in a short period of time. When the first friend did it, i had just started to come out of a very dark period myself. And that's when i started to think very seriously. I'm a historian, and i i read a great deal of philosophy through history. So i had these impulses of ideas, but i really had to search them down and find out the nuances. But i also want to add, look, i i'm someone who speaks to people about living a deep, meaningf life without a definite spiritual guide line. For they was like talking to your hand. It just isn't helpful. Now, e is,...

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