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Though the terrain of frustration may be vast – from a stubbed toe to an untimely death – at the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
The Consolations of Philosophy
Alain De Botton
The dismissed board members, meanwhile, insist that their actions were wise.
The Inside Story of Microsoft’s Partnership with OpenAI | The New Yorker
Charles Duhigg
His father homeschooled him in a Montaignean spirit, and Pascal tasted many of these pleasures for himself. After a time, though, he came to see that his seemingly lighthearted contemporaries experienced their lives not as a banquet of balanced delights, but as a succession of empty distractions.
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