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Composed Desire

Learning to translate our wounds into language instead of weapons

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Umi
Feb 16, 2026
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I really love and have always loved Alain de Botton.

He was the first author who brought me back to reading after years of saving for law school and then surviving it. During that stretch of my life, reading had become functional. Case law. Briefs. Margins filled with citations instead of questions. I had forgotten what it felt like to be intellectually …

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