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Bittersweet: Finding Purpose in Sorrow, with Susan Cain

Intelligence Squared

CHAPTER

The Bard of Bitter Sweetness

The epigraph that i chose for the book comes from leonard cone, who, as you know, i'm sort of obsessed with. It goes, there is a crack in everything. That's where the light gets in. So if you're inclined to bitter sweetness, you know, you look at the troubles of the world d and you also insist on seeing the beauty and the joy. And kind of always looking for transcendence within yo with an acknowledgment of what is still broken.

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