Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives.
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I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own.
Anthony Collins
I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity.
Theophile Gautier
Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
William Shakespeare