The challenge of modern freedom, or the combination of isolation and freedom which confronts you, is to make yourself up. The danger is that you may emerge from the process as a not-entirely-human creature.

Saul Bellow
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The challenge of modern freedom, or the combination of isolation and freedom which confronts you, is to make yourself up. The danger is that you may emerge from the process as a not-entirely-human creature. This quote from Ayn Rand expresses a quality of being in the real world. To put it in another way, being alone in a world where everyone else is alone.

In the real world, your resources are limited and you have to figure out what to do with them. In that kind of world, it’s important to be self-reliant.

Source: Novels, 19842000

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