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“And so the question remains: What aren’t we building when we are building our brands?”
― Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
― Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
“Sometimes you need people to be perfect and they can’t be and you hate them forever for not being even though it isn’t their fault and it’s not yours either. You just needed something they didn’t have in them to give you.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
“No one makes themselves; we all make and unmake one another.”
― Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
― Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
“At bottom, it comes down to who and what we cannot bear to see—in our past, in our present, and in the future racing toward us. Performing and partitioning and projecting are the individual steps that make up the dance of avoidance.”
― Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
― Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
“what if life is just a collection of essentially unrelated experiences? Why does one thing have to follow meaningfully from another?”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
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