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Themes

  • Knowledge — The pursuit of learning, understanding, and intellectual growth

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“I was already well schooled in looking away, the jungle-craft of gentility.”
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“That unthinkable, adult truth: that need is not transitive, that one may need without oneself being needed.”
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“Need is not transitive, one may need without oneself being needed.”
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