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Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: Sonder [1]

Submitted by klarimer on April 2, 2014 - 8:40am

Graphic designer and filmmaker John Koenig reads from his “Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows [2],” an original lexicon of emotions we don’t have words for. In this clip, he illustrates one of his words, sonder, “the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own.”

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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/dictionary_of_obscure_sorrows_sonder [2] http://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com