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We listen to sad music for the same reason we go to church or synagogue or the mosque. We long for the Garden of Eden, we long for Mecca, we long for Zion because we come into this world with the sense that there is a more perfect and beautiful world to which we belong, where we are no longer.

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We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it.

It’s never a good idea to organize society in a way that depletes the energy of half the population.

Our difficulty accepting impermanence is the heart of human suffering.

Our lives are shaped as profoundly by personality as by gender or race. And the single most important aspect of personality … is where we fall on the introvert-extrovert spectrum.

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