"In the mixing and matching of two largely unknowable histories (of genetic endowment and personal experience), the only sane foregone conclusion about any relationship is that it is an experiment; and that exactly what it is an experiment in will never be clear to the participants."
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Adam Phillips, Going Sane (London: Hamish Hamilton, 2005), p. 231
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