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It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain that the face we have shown to the world has been the face we have shown to ourselves.

— Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931)
2w ago

All that I've done, thought or been is a series of submissions, either to a false self that I assumed belonged to me because I expressed myself through it to the outside, or to a weight of circumstances that I supposed was the air I breathed. In this moment of seeing, I suddenly find myself isolated, an exile where I'd always thought I was a citizen. At the heart of my thoughts I wasn't I.

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