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The whole movement of an essay is propelled by a fundamentally human impulse to want to figure things out.

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I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree.

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It happened this way: I fell in love and then, because the love was ruining everything I cared about, I had to fall out.

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Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got them in order to sew up approval.

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I'm still prone to periods of isolation, still more fearful of the world out there and more averse to pleasure and risk than I'd like to be; I still direct more energy toward controlling and minimizing appetites than toward indulging them.

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Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning labels: this substance is self-punitive; ingest with caution.

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To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find.

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