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“I walked back to the hotel, and I wondered if it was true, what I had told him, that I didn't need to pretend. Maybe pretense was all there was. Fashion is pretense, education is pretense, personality, too, is a form of internalized pretense. I wondered what my true essence would be, if I were solitary, in nature, untamed and unconditioned.”

“By the time we know ourselves, we are already. That is the problem of childhood. It takes you a couple of years to grow up. to be conscious, to make decisions, and by then it's already too late, it's just a race against those fateful years.”