Ideally: honesty, integrity, compassion, wisdom, courage.
What I'd Settle For: the grace to be a little ashamed of themselves when they hold us down and fuck us.
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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