What is this thing that has us chewing at our own selves, grating ourselves against our own sharp sieve? It is the act of stepping back. It is the act of separating, and judging. It takes only one because the one becomes two.
BONNIE FRIEDMAN
Envy is one of the scorpions of the mind, often having little to do with the objective, external world.
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