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American writer Phillip Lopate.

Phillip Lopate

Guy Maddin

Oil painting portrair Michel de Montaigne in red robes and white collar

Michel de Montaigne

(1533 - 1592)

Hans Holbein portrait of Sir Thomas More.

Thomas More

(1478 - 1535)

Alice Munro

Black and white photograph of Friedrich Nietzsche with a huge mustache.

Friedrich Nietzsche

(1844 - 1900)

Photograph of American poet Mary Oliver.

Mary Oliver

(1935 - 2019)

Emilia Pardo Bazán

(1852 - 1921)

Dorothy Parker working at her typewriter.

Dorothy Parker

(1893 - 1967)

Blaise Pascal

(1623 - 1662)

Depiction of Greek philosopher Plato.

Plato

(c. 427 BC - c. 347 BC)

Giovanni Pontano

(1426 - 1503)

Rachel de Queiroz

(1910 - 2003)

British writer Vita Sackville-West.

Vita Sackville-West

(1892 - 1962)

Bernardino de Sahagún

Bernardino de Sahagún

(c. 1500 - c. 1590)

Manuel Camilo dos Santos

(1905 - 1987)

George Saunders

Portrait of young Arthur Schopenhauer wearing a brown suit and a cravat.

Arthur Schopenhauer

(1788 - 1860)

Japanese diarist and poet Sei Shōnagon.

Sei Shonagon

(c. 966 - c. 1025)

Black and white image of Roman philosopher and statesman Seneca the Younger.

Seneca the Younger

(4 BC - 65)

Shantideva

(c. 685 - c. 763)

Psychologist and writer Lauren Slater.

Lauren Slater

Zadie Smith

Painting of a man with shoulder-length curly hair wearing a white square collar

Benedict de Spinoza

(1632 - 1677)