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Best of: A new philosophy of love

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Grayscale Sadist

There was no dramatic event that made this book a reality. But there was a long period of what I call grayscale depression, just sadness every day. And the same things were trickling into my thoughts about relationships where I'm depressed. The book is not about sadness because it's not about any emotion at all. Really the book is about understanding what love is and how you can't define it in terms of any particular emotion.

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