Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to … - Veronica Roth

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Have you watched the fairies when the rain is done, Spreading out their little wings to dry them in the sun?

Veronica Roth

Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed and envy, which are just forms of selfishness. If we have little, and want for little, and we are all equal, we envy no one.

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