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Among life’s cruelest truths is this one:  Wonderful things are especially wonderful the first time they happen, but their wonderfulness wanes with repetition.  Just compare the first and last time your child said “Mama” or your partner said “I love you” and you’ll know exactly what I mean.  When we have an experience - hearing a particular sonata ( Read more... )

Happiness is more ephemeral than thought. Its ingredients are subtle, and there is no guarantee that a formula or recipe for joy can be written out or passed on or repeated even once again. Happiness evades capture, dissolving like a melody into the air, eluding even the most delicate, careful grasp. It frustrates any systemic search, responding ( Read more... )

I came to believe that love was simply the name we give the practical problem of finding a mate who will be the most suitable partner, selected from a range of people having not terribly different qualifications, bearing in mind availability, age, education, background, references, appearance, health, wealth, stability, sexual orientation, some ( Read more... )

A man who has blown all his options can’t afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can’t afford to admit - no matter how often he’s reminded of it - that every day of his life takes him farther down a blind alley… There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ( Read more... )

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