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“Maybe there must always be two of us—our real selves and the ones we create to survive in the world as it is.”

People Life Self Identity Sociology Public Persona

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“Isn't that always the way adult life begins? You think you'll become something different, something new. At first, you swim violently against the tide, your body straining until your muscles give out, until you can't push any harder, until you stop fighting and float, letting the water take you back to shore, where the rest of the world is already at the office, typing on their computers beneath fluorescent lights, toiling away in the glare of permanent productive daylight.”

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“When you're young, every part of life seems big and monumental. Once older you can see it for what it is: smaller pieces of a larger game you have no choice but to play.”

Work Capitalism

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“The open office floor plan is a form of strangulation.”

Work Capitalism

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“If the brain is elastic and memory is faulty, maybe all of these stories are wrong. Maybe it happened a different way altogether. Maybe I was happy and I just forget that now.”

Mind Happiness Brain Perception Memory

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“The amount of pain we can endure is spectacular. We are conditioned to withstand torture, to haul gray boulders of hurt on our shoulders, to confront the pressure endlessly, the heavy rough stone wearing away at us until our skin breaks open, revealing the bloody red flesh below.”

Pain Suffering Struggle Pressure Vulnerability Endurance Human Spirit

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