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“On paper, Tolstoy embodied success in every dimension of nineteenth-century Russian life.”
“He was a literary genius.”
“So we come to see ourselves this way, too.”
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““I felt that what I had been standing on had collapsed,” he wrote.”
“She was an actress.”
“She’d loved acting as a kid, performing in school plays and regional theater.”
“Rigid identities mean that who and what we’ve been keeps us from becoming anyone or anything else.”
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“He was increasingly uncertain about who he was, and worse: whether he wanted to keep being that way.”
““What I had lived on no longer existed, and there was nothing left.” The questions tormented him.”
“Peyton McDavitt knew her move to Hollywood was a gamble, aimed at making up for lost time.”
“It wasn’t easy.”
“As time went on, auditions became mechanical.”
“That means it’s easy to get caught in an identity trap, where we create rigid identities instead of flexible ones.”
“From the time we’re students, we’re told to specialize, to pick one path.”
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“But as she grew older, acting felt like an all-or-nothing proposition whose pursuit required abandoning everything else she cared about: school, sports, music.”
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