Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.

The human heart has 

secret fortunes, 

In secret kept, 

peacefully fixed; 

The contemplations, 

the expectations, 

the fantasies, 

the joys, 

Whose charms were broken whenever uncovered

If the metaphors in everyday speech are a clue, then all of us associate blankness with virtue rather than with nothingness. Think of the moral connotations of the adjectives: clean, fair, immaculate, lily-white, pure, spotless, unmarred and unsullied.

Written By Steven Pinker

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