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“Everything in life has two sides, but the second one is created by yourself, when you allow the thoughts, actions, and decisions of others, which tend to repeat in a cyclic way, to pull you into that vortex of paradigms that belong to their own world and not yours. It is when you feel the need to answer a question, to explain yourself, or even when you react to what others do to you based on how they make you feel, that you lose your real identity. Ideally, those two sides you keep encountering should always be created or expected by you first.”

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