🧩 Philosophy May 7, 2026 · Maria Popova

The Third Thing: Poet Donald Hall on the Secret to Lasting Love

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The Third Thing: Poet Donald Hall on the Secret to Lasting Love
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“Third things are essential to marriages, objects or practices or habits or arts or institutions or games or human beings that provide a site of joint rapture or contentment.”

“The encounter between two differences is an event,” French philosopher Alain Badiou wrote in his tremendous treatise on why we fall and how we stay in love. “On the basis of this event, love can start and flourish. It is the first, absolutely essential point.”
And yet at the heart of

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