One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all. (V. S. Naipaul)

One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all.

V. S. Naipaul

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