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“Every man carries the whole stamp of the human condition within him.”
— Montaigne, The Essays

This is either deeply humbling or quietly liberating, depending on the day.

We spend considerable energy maintaining the impression that we have things more or less together—that the anxiety, the pettiness, the envy, the self-doubt, the moments of cowardice and smallness are exceptions to who we really are rather than features of the common human inheritance.

We curate carefully. We present the edited version. We assume, without quite deciding to, that everyone else is managing better than we are. [...]

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