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"Getting into the habit of changing who you are to please others, is setting a lifetime marathon of running away from yourself."
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"Songs of myselfI am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me, The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into new tongue. I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man,.."

"Either way, you were connected. By your desires. By your defiance. By the simple, complicated fact of who you were."

"Dreaming and loving and screwing. None of these are identities. Maybe when other people look at us, but not to ourselves. We are so much more complicated than that."

"She looks like a very young old person, or a very old young person; but then, she's looked that way ever since she was two."

"But then it came to me that who I really am is a person who doesn't need to know who he really is, in the usual sense. What does it mean, anyway - family background and so forth? People use it mostly as an excuse for their own snobbery, or else their failings. I'm free of the temptation, that's all. I'm free of the strings. Nothing ties me down."
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"It is only when we first do what we are SUPPOSED to do, that we set ourselves to be successful at what we WANT to do."

"The first person to fire out of your life when you take your power back, is the one you abused the most, and he or she did not stand up for him/herself."

"When your world gets stripped down to nothing you may feel empty and naked-but this is when your space can be filled with what is new, and maybe even upgraded."

"Everyone comes into your life to give you something even if it might as if he/she is taking something from you."
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