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“See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds.”
“Is there any escaping the junkshop of the self?”
“I don’t like being left for long struggling with my dangerous self.”
“Despise your heart. I wanted to. I didn't want to grieve anymore, to feel loss or guilt, or worry. I wanted to be hard, calculating. I wanted to be fearless.”
“I felt stifled. Everything I looked at reminded me of myself.”
“Go with your bad self.”
“In the rare air of that altitude he forgot he was he. One way or another that was the aim of life. Shamans flew outside the self in ecstasy. Other people found love, or causes.”
“Inside our mind there is hidden place that contains the mind within the mind. There, you will find another version of yourself that may be your true self. We do not find that self by travelling, by...”
“And remember: you must not overwork your body, or your soul. You must not enslave yourself, as you would not enslave any other person. You must be the custodian of your self.”
“I shall strip away layer after layer of grime -- the toffee-colored varnish and caked soot left by a lifetime of dissembling -- until I come to the very thing itself and know it for what it is. My ...”
“To bite off your shadow is neither easy nor painless. It demands a single-mindedness that is almost unknown in this day.”
“Then I thought, "No, I broke it myself. I broke it on purpose to pay myself back for being such a heel.”
“An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too and that maketh him very wary.”
“A sick man that gets talking about himself a woman that gets talking about her baby and an author that begins reading out of his own book never know when to stop.”
“If you can't bite don't show your teeth.”
“Know him know me.”
“Man who man would be must rule the empire of himself.”
“Nobody can honestly think of himself as a strong character because however successful he may be in overcoming them he is necessarily aware of the doubts and temptations that accompany every importa...”
“What the collective age wants allows and approves is the perpetual holiday from the self.”
“With every physical pain my moral fibre unravels a little.”
