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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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After They Left

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After They Left

For years, we forgot all about ownership. It would have made no sense to ask who owned the little vase…
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Why Hurt People Hurt People

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Why Hurt People Hurt People

It’s one of the puzzles of relationships that, after a hugely promising few months or years, one of the members…
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The Wisdom of Stoicism

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The Wisdom of Stoicism

Stoicism was a philosophy invented by leading minds in Ancient Greece and Rome to help us cope with agonising periods…
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