“you can't escape the world, and you're not responsible for how you look, if you look beauticious or butt ugly. you're not responsible for how you feel or what you say or how you act or anything you do. it's all out of your hands.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

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