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“There's nothing safer than wanting nothing. But being safe in that way, I've come to know, does not inure you to illness, pain, and death. Sometimes the only thing it saves is face.”

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Three Women

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Lisa Taddeo

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“But I think there's something inside of us, something that blooms in us in adolescence and never leaves...and it's just...*want*. [...] Some people work to minimize it with mindfulness and meditation; some people let it grow and run free and take over their lives. But some people, and I consider myself one of them, study their want, refine it, and build an engine that burns it. Even if their want pushes all in one direction, they can tack against it like a sailboat, getting somewhere better than where they *wanted* to be.”