I can’t really act the way I want to act, or say what I want to say all the time. And a lot of times, I cover that up with a smile. ― Hilary Duff

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Maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people," I say. "Maybe we're accumulating these new selves all the time. ― Jandy Nelson

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To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.
― Dark Jar Tin Zoo

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There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed. ― Hubert Selby Jr

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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. ― John Berger

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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. -Franz Kafka

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It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us. ― Jackson Pearce

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Love yourself. Forgive yourself. Be true to yourself. How you treat yourself sets the standard for how others will treat you. ― Steve Maraboli

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If your method in correcting others leaves them worse than you met them, correct yourself. ― Zain Abdul Nassir

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People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring. ― Emma Donoghue

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