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We have been taught to wish for it, but the wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as adults ,

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To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
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We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
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We have been taught to wish for it, but the wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as adults ,
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