We need to feel close, but if we are too close, the spark is extinguished.

The Erotic is an Antidote to Death · TED 2013

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The longest study of human happiness ever conducted — the Harvard Adult Development Study, started in 1938 and still running — has one finding so clear it is almost embarrassing: the people who are happiest, healthiest, and live longest are the ones with warm relationships. Bigge…

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