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To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

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The apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and why we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the ...more

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I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative, change the outcome.

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We still counted happiness and health and love and luck and beautiful children as "ordinary blessings.