Is is as if life or reality itself has had it in mind all along to unravel the very design i have been trying all along to impose on it.
As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself_The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you know. That takes an enormous amount of courage.
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As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself_The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you know. That takes an enormous amount of courage.
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