Robert James WallerAnd in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.
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This quote has a lot of ambiguity. What did this woman think she knew about herself before the moment? The question is important because it indicates that many of us don’t know ourselves very well. We can act differently in different situations, perhaps even in different states of mind. And the only way to find out is to keep acting that way long enough to see what happens.
Source: The Bridges Of Madison County
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