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As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know that our love has taken the socially sanctioned form of egotism.
Germaine Greer
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Germaine Greer
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: January 29
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