Then no matter where you are, in a crowded restaurant or on some desolate street or even in the comforts of your own home, you'll watch yourself dismantle every assurance you ever lived by. You'll stand aside as a great complexity intrudes, tearing apart, piece by piece, all your carefully conceived denials, whether deliberate or unconscious. And for better or worse you'll turn, unable to resist, though try to resist you still will, fighting with everything you've got not to face the thing you most dread, what is now, what will be, what has always come before, the creature you truly are, the creature we all are, buried in the nameless black of a name. And then the nightmares will begin. . Mark Z. Danielewski
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This quote has really hit home for me. I have always had the fear of losing myself that I could never get to be someone else, no matter how hard I tried. The thing is that if you don't look at yourself and see your flaws, you will never change. Going through a lot of hard times in my life, I have learned a lot about myself and I have learned how important it is to accept me for who I am and not what others want from me, which can be extremely difficult when you are in a situation where you yourself don't trust yourself.

Source: House Of Leaves

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