We carry within us a gamut of expectations that remorselessly torment us and inflict on us some of the many symptoms of self-hatred: a tense spine, insomnia, malfunctioning bowels [...] a feeling of dread and, in the wake of crises, a desire to kill ourselves. #TheSchoolOfLife

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