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“You talk as if—a person is a person. A man is what he is. He can’t be anything else. You can’t change that.’ ‘Well then, I think that’s the real difference between us. Because I believe you can change it.’ ‘Then I don’t follow you. And I don’t want to. Bad enough to cope with what one is, instead…” quote by Doris Lessing
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““You talk as if—a person is a person. A man is what he is. He can’t be anything else. You can’t change that.’ ‘Well then, I think that’s the real difference between us. Because I believe you can change it.’ ‘Then I don’t follow you. And I don’t want to. Bad enough to cope with what one is, instead of complicating things even more.””

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