The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you’ll be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Rudyard Kipling, June 1935, from “Interview with an Immortal,” Arthur Gordon, Reader’s Digest (July 1959).
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