How to Spot the Loveliest People in the World

They've shed their pride and can openly discuss their loneliness and sadness.
They can face their self-hatred and accept their regrets.
They have an optimal perspective on their unhappiness.
They understand and empathize with your strangest, oddest, most lamentable things.
They are familiar with all kinds of follies around sex, status, love, or money.
They are not attached to seeming sane or normal.
They acknowledge that life is mostly pain, mystery, and error.
They've had the courage to fathom their full propensities to cowardice and corruption.
They don't care about your reputation, combining a thorough misanthropy for the group with a deep love and tenderness for the individual.
They've been through their obsessions and have come out the other side.
They can let their humor get very dark due to the gap between their hopes and their experience.
They've gone into the weirdest bits of themselves and will therefore understand the oddest bits about you.
They don't expect life as a whole to go right and can laugh with exceptional richness and glee against a backdrop of despair.

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