Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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