“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.” – George Eliot

November 6, 2014 No comments Article

Letter toher friend, Georgiana Burne-Jones (1875). anudda from her: “So I am content to tell my simple story, without trying to make things seem better than they were; dreading nothing, indeed, but falsity, which, in spite of one’s best efforts, there is reason to dread. Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. The pencil is conscious of

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The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout

October 29, 2014 No comments Article

Moral reasoning, is anything but consistent and universal. It varies with age and gender. It differs from one culture to the next,and most likely from one region or even household to the next. But in a kind of human miracle, one thing remains constant for nearly all of us, and that is our profound attachment

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