Be like the flower, content with its nature.
Desire was just the dumbest thing. You wanted what you wanted until it was yours. Then you didn__ want it anymore. You took what you had for granted until it was no longer yours. This, it seemed to her, was one of the crueller paradoxes of human nature.
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Desire was just the dumbest thing. You wanted what you wanted until it was yours. Then you didn__ want it anymore. You took what you had for granted until it was no longer yours. This, it seemed to her, was one of the crueller paradoxes of human nature.
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