"To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible."

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Then there is the matter of my mother's abandonment of me. Again, this is the common experience. They walk ahead of us, and walk too fast, and forget us, they are so lost in thoughts of their own, and soon or late they disappear. The only mystery is that we expect it to be otherwise.

— Marilynne Robinson