Identity Quote by Hilary Thayer Hamann

“But in fact there are infinite subtleties to identity-that is to say, there is the way that you are, which is the sum of the way you are becoming and the way you have been, which does not take into account the way you secretly wish to be.” quote by Hilary Thayer Hamann — Download Open image

““But in fact there are infinite subtleties to identity-that is to say, there is the way that you are, which is the sum of the way you are becoming and the way you have been, which does not take into account the way you secretly wish to be.””

Hilary Thayer Hamann

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