Dufourmantelle, a major French philosopher and as a psychoanalyst, recently died while trying to rescue children at the beach, and her death has received an extraordinary outpouring of grief in both the Anglophone and Francophone media.
is all of this simultaneously without being any one of these elements more than the other.
Cristina Gonzaleshas quoted7 months ago
true enemy of gentleness is … gentleness. Fake gentleness, mawkishness, this passivity sold to us via every New Age commercial technique, of relaxation or of an overused meaning of “zen.”