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“It was like diving into winter waves. "I can't," I told him."Why not?""Because I need to find out who I am by myself before I can be with anyone else.”
“If you're saving, you're succeeding”
“The foraging for food and water, the struggle for life in a world without masters, housed in a body that man had made dependent on himself.”
“Western farmers were individualists cheifly in their dreams.”
“We are doing ourselves no favors when we look to the crowd to tell us where we are.”
“I don't have a 'side'I'm responsible for what I say and nothing else.”
“When someone says you can't, look at where they are sitting. Perhaps they meant they can't.”
“I cherished her individuality, that spark of independence no child should lose to life's restrictions and parameters.”
“But he could never be a made guy himself because of his tainted blood, some Sunset Park Puerto Rican on his father's side, even though he was raised Italian. Chili didn't care to be made anyway, ge...”
“Whatever they may say, your story is truly your own. You have a responsibility to it, the way a father has to a child”
“Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence”
“But I'm learning it's human nature to want the things you can't have. What changes is how you go about pursuing the things you want. When you're a little kid and you're told no, you scream and thro...”
“Let there be spaces in your togetherness.And let the wind of the heavens dance between you.”
“Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.”
“To be successfully independent, you must view life as if all of your love ones are dead and the world is against you.”
“I only know how to be one thing. And thats me. Take it or leave it. I dont really give a shit.”
“...no one can afford not to be a man. No position can compensate for coming face to face with a robot when you are alone.”
“See with your own eyes, hear with your own ears, think your own thoughts, say what you must say, do what you must do, love all that you can and stand on your own two feet.”
“Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest win...”
“You know what, Abigail? Youre rightit is selfish. But theres nothing inherently immature about making a selfish choice. It is hard to put what you know is right for you first, when you know people ...”
