Did you ever wonder if you’re on the right path, if your career reflects your true self? While you sip your morning coffee and gaze at that stack of paperwork on your desk, here’s a few literary quotes concerning the “true self” on which to meditate. “No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.” - Nathanial Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter “He remembered that she was pretty, and, more, that she had a special grace in the intimacy of life. She had the secret of individuality which excites–and escapes.” - Joseph Conrad, Victory “Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.” - W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence “This above all,–to thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.” - William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Short Fiction The Things by Peter Watts, a Hugo Award Nominee for Best Short Story from Clarkesworld Magazine “I am being Blair. I escape out




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