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How to Make It Through
Probably the most remarkable thing about this ostensibly very ordinary painting is that it was made in the last months…
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Everything Is So Weird
There are moments, terrifying but also useful, vertiginous, comedic and in their own way filled grandeur and beauty, when we leave ordinary reality behind and perceive everything as for once entirely and profoundly weird.
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Escaping Into History
We should, at moments, be allowed to admit to longing to be living in a different age, and not to have to think about all the things that people of our times are so strongly supposed to be obsessed by.
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The Inevitability of Choice
There are so few public reminders of life’s necessary trade-offs. Yet once we understand the incompatibilities, we are in a better position to do what we always needed to do: choose.
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Calm
Why Illusions Are Necessary to Achieve Anything
We tend to imagine that good and purposeful people must always have an appetite to face the truth. But what…
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Sociability
The Loveliest People in the World
The loveliest people are not the applauded and the haughty ones, the elated and the optimistic ones. They are the…
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Self-Knowledge
12 Signs That You Are Mature in the Eyes of Psychotherapy
As we know only too well, becoming an adult has very little to do with turning 18 or 22, driving…
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Leisure
Eight Rules to Create Nicer Cities
In almost no area of modern life are the potential solutions simpler and our attachment to our errors greater than…
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Self-Knowledge
We Need to Change the Movie We Are In
It would be hard to think of two more different kinds of film than those of Arnold Schwarzenegger on the…
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Self-Knowledge
The Breast and the Mouth
The mouth and the breast are two central features of human anatomy, emblematic of two vital functions: eating and feeding,…
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Can Childhoods Really Matter So Much?
For over a hundred years, we’ve been telling ourselves a powerful idea about how human beings work: that childhoods are…
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Leisure
The Past Was Not in Black and White
It’s a sign of how much photography influences our sense of what the past looked like that it’s hard not…
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Calm
Why Illusions Are Necessary to Achieve Anything
We tend to imagine that good and purposeful people must always have an appetite to face the truth. But what…
View
Sociability
The Loveliest People in the World
The loveliest people are not the applauded and the haughty ones, the elated and the optimistic ones. They are the…
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Self-Knowledge
12 Signs That You Are Mature in the Eyes of Psychotherapy
As we know only too well, becoming an adult has very little to do with turning 18 or 22, driving…
View
Leisure
Eight Rules to Create Nicer Cities
In almost no area of modern life are the potential solutions simpler and our attachment to our errors greater than…
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Self-Knowledge
We Need to Change the Movie We Are In
It would be hard to think of two more different kinds of film than those of Arnold Schwarzenegger on the…
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Self-Knowledge
The Breast and the Mouth
The mouth and the breast are two central features of human anatomy, emblematic of two vital functions: eating and feeding,…
View
Self-Knowledge
Can Childhoods Really Matter So Much?
For over a hundred years, we’ve been telling ourselves a powerful idea about how human beings work: that childhoods are…
View
Leisure
The Past Was Not in Black and White
It’s a sign of how much photography influences our sense of what the past looked like that it’s hard not…
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