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Maybe You Really Were Too Good for Them
It’s one of the harder ideas to take on board – if we’re modest and kind people, which we are,…
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Generous Pessimism in Love
We think – of course – that pessimism must be the enemy of love. Yet what a properly thoughtful gift…
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Learning to Speak… Again
It’s well known that between the ages of approximately one and five, the offspring of Homo sapiens slowly and at…
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Stop-Start in Love
We can try to understand one of the oddest, most painful, most widespread phenomena in love. It is going on…
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Self-Knowledge
The Suspicion of Love
The claim: that we might, somewhere inside us, out of reach of day-to-day awareness, be suspicious of love; that we…
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A Solution to Heartache: Memory
When we lose love, we may at points hear from well-meaning friends (perhaps those older than us) that we should…
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