Costica Bradatan's In Praise of Failure reviewed
Acknowledging that we are designed to fail might lead us to live more joyfully and purposefully.
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Acknowledging that we are designed to fail might lead us to live more joyfully and purposefully.
Once you have lived in a Utopia, you are doomed. You carry its nothingness in your bones wherever you go.
“In Praise of Failure,” by Costica Bradatan, examines a handful of thinkers who rejected worldly success in favor of struggle.
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