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"Ebook + Audiobook. Pretty sure this won't be the last time I read this, feeling quite a nice progress on my french already, Le Comte de Monte Cristo, just wait for meee!" — Sep 11, 2015 04:29PM
"Ebook + Audiobook. Pretty sure this won't be the last time I read this, feeling quite a nice progress on my french already, Le Comte de Monte Cristo, just wait for meee!" — Sep 11, 2015 04:29PM
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
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“Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.”
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“Wait. I’m everyone!?â€�
“Now you’re getting it,� I said, with a congratulatory slap on the back.
“I’m every human being who ever lived?�
“Or who will ever live, yes.�
“I’m Abraham Lincoln?�
“And you’re John Wilkes Booth, too,� I added.
“I’m Hitler?� You said, appalled.
“And you’re the millions he killed.�
“I’m Jesus?�
“And you’re everyone who followed him.�
You fell silent.
“Every time you victimized someone,â€� I said, “you were victimizing yourself. Every act of kindness you’ve done, you’ve done to yourself. Every happy and sad moment ever experienced by any human was, or will be, experienced by you.”
― The Egg
“Now you’re getting it,� I said, with a congratulatory slap on the back.
“I’m every human being who ever lived?�
“Or who will ever live, yes.�
“I’m Abraham Lincoln?�
“And you’re John Wilkes Booth, too,� I added.
“I’m Hitler?� You said, appalled.
“And you’re the millions he killed.�
“I’m Jesus?�
“And you’re everyone who followed him.�
You fell silent.
“Every time you victimized someone,â€� I said, “you were victimizing yourself. Every act of kindness you’ve done, you’ve done to yourself. Every happy and sad moment ever experienced by any human was, or will be, experienced by you.”
― The Egg
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