Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the onl…

Rachel Cusk
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Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude. ✨ Rachel Cusk (2012). Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation, p.19, Faber & Faber
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