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This reads as a call to enlarge one’s life by stepping past fear of standing out. It can be taken to mean that convention often keeps people small, and that real ambition begins when a person accepts their own difference instead of hiding it. It lands when someone is tempted to play safe, but senses that a fuller life would require more honesty and nerve.
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Originally said in English.
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About Alexandra Stoddard
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