Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over. (Edward St Aubyn)

Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.

Edward St Aubyn

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