“So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.”

— Stephen Chbosky , book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Variant: So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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