There are three conditions which often look alike Yet differ completel…

T. S. Eliot
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There are three conditions which often look alike Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow: Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachment From self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference, ... . ✨ T.S. Eliot (2009). Collected Poems 1909-1962, p.180, Faber & Faber
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