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“There is something I have noticed about desire, that it opens the eyes and strikes them blind at the same time.”

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“They throw themselves on the waters of the world, and they know they will be borne up.”

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everything is toxic. That's the point. You can't avoid toxins. Thinking you can is just another symptom of the toxic overload stage.

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