The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will b…

Margaret Atwood
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The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free. ✨ Margaret Atwood (2012). Selected Poems II: 1976 - 1986, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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