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Why The Long Face?: Why Does Sadness Inspire Great Art When Happiness Cannot?

12 mins | Nov 26, 2018

Adam Roberts, writing in Aeon magazine, looks into the popular notion that sadness makes us seem nobler, more elegant, more adult.

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