The quality of owning freezes you forever in I, and cuts you off forev…

John Steinbeck
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The quality of owning freezes you forever in I, and cuts you off forever from the we. ✨ John Steinbeck (2016). The Grapes of Wrath, p.120, Hamilton Books
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