![Sometimes we just walk into something that is not for us at all. We pretend it is. We think we can shrug it off like a coat, but it's not a coat at all, it's more like another skin. [...] All I wanted was to make my life thrilling for a while: to take the oridinary objects of my days and make a different argument out of them, no obligations to my past.](/assets/img/quote-photos/sometimes-we-just-walk-into-something-that-is-not-for-us-at-all-we-pretend-it-is.jpg)
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