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All wishes, whatever their apparent content, have the same and unvarying meaning: "I refuse to be what I am."

W. H. Auden
Wish, Refuse
"The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays" by W. H. Auden, ("Interlude: West's Disease"), (p. 241), 1962.
All wishes, whatever their apparent content, have the same and unvarying meaning: I refuse to be what I am.