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22 March 2011

Condemned to Joy

A former colleague turned me on to all the scholarly/intellectual articles on happiness. Who knew it was its own area of study?

“Become your own best friend, learn self-esteem, think positive, dare to live in harmony,” we were told by so many self-help books, though their very number suggested that these were not such easy tasks.

Pascal Bruckner, “Condemned to Joy,” City Journal.

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