The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

    Stephen Grosz

    Chatto & Windus
    2013
    240 páginas
    8h 0m
    ISBN-13: 9780701185350
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    Um dos melhores livros que já li. O tanto que faz refletir sobre a vida e as suas dificuldades é sem base. Citação: “[...], is the way that loss followed loss. He loses his wallet, but only after getting lost himself (taking the wrong train). He loses his usual good sense (putting his wallet on the seat, not in his pocket). He loses the evening (the occasion of treating his wife) and then, after his wallet is found, he loses the fact of its recovery and finds himself searching for it in his pockets. But my patient’s biggest loss was emotional - over the course of all this, he lost the sense of happiness that should have accompanied his success. Within hours he went from being a winner to feeling like a loser. ’Sucess has ruined many a man’, Benjamin Franklin once said. This is true enough, but what Franklin didn’t mention is that we often work the ruin upon ourselves.[…]”

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