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Do Not Spare Yourself: An Antidote to Feeling Like You Are Waiting to Start Living

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Do Not Spare Yourself: An Antidote to Feeling Like You Are Waiting to Start Living
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The only thing more dangerous than wanting to save another person — a dangerous desire too often mistaken for love — is wanting to save yourself, to spare yourself the disappointment and heartbreak and loss inseparable from being a creature with hopes and longings constantly colliding with reality, with the indifference of time and chance, with the opposing hopes and longings of others.
We have, of course, always invented institutions of salvation — religion to save us from our

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