In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story that you tell to others.

Geoff Ryman
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Your self is not something that you have chosen. Your self is a story that someone else has chosen to tell about you. You are not who you think you are, but who other people think you are. This is why it is so important to pay attention to what people are saying about you. What do they say?

Source: Paradise Tales: And Other Stories

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