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Living a good life often requires integrating a bundle of contrasts into a durable whole. The psychiatrist Leston Havens explains, in his book Learning to Be Human, that mental health depends on both freedom and compliance, radical independence and persistent loyalty. “My model will be Lincoln,” Havens writes, “who seemed as hard as granite and as soft as a cloud. I will learn to be as strong and as weak as I need to be.”
Lincoln's Melancholy
Joshua Wolf Shenk
Every mirror led to a personal orgy of indulgence, a regular ritual of self-worship.
Lethal Marriage
Nick Pron
The room swam before me, its walls dissolving into a silvered dust of tiny stars.
The Nature of Monsters
Clare Clark
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