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From the 100-part Penguin Great Ideas series comes a rumination on relationships, courtesy of one of the most influential French Renaissance philosophers. Miche

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'And again, as always, he had the feeling he was holding something that never was quite his - his. Something too delicate, too precious, that would fly away onc