“I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go”
Joseph Conrad book Heart of Darkness
Source: Heart of Darkness
“And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own.”
— Ralph Ellison, book Invisible Man
Source: Invisible Man
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