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| 7fa1932 | Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your retirement party; then chewing on your bedsheet and choking on your canned peaches at the nursing home. It was better never to have been born-never to have wanted anything, never to have hoped for anything. | hopelessness want hope nursing-home spawning retirement office career duty dying | Donna Tartt |