Being yourself

If you don't know who you are,
you may have to coax your authenticity...
 to come out of hiding.

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You live...sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living.
Then you read a book… or you take a trip…
and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating.

― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin

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