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An unafraid young creature had been turned, through the long, grinding process of always, always being at other people’s back and call, always having to give out attention to detail, minuscule wants, demands, needs, events, crises, into an obsessed maniac. Obsessed by what was totally unimportant.

-Doris Lessing, The Summer Before the Dark

I like it better here where I can sit just quietly and smell the flowers.

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