“It was a reminder of what a human self was, and what a human life was: not a beautiful glass lamp just this side of being broken, or a lovely gold ring with a single dent in it. But a bettered old seashell, formed over millions of years, made to endure.” LifeSelfResilience Book:Pure Colour Source: Pure Colour
“When I strip away my dreams, what i imagine to be my potential, all the things I haven't aid, what I imagine I feel for other people in the absence of my expressing it, all the rules I've made for myself that I don't follow--I see that I've done as little as anyone else in this world to deserve the grand moniker I.” SelfDreamsIdentity Book:How Should a Person Be? Source: How Should a Person Be?
“How could I castrate my mind--neuter it!--and build up a resistance to know what was mine from what was everyone else's, and finally be in the world in my own way? That endless capacity for empathy--which you have to really kill in order to act freely, to know your own desires!” SelfIdentityEmpathyGuiltCo Dependency Book:How Should a Person Be? Source: How Should a Person Be?
“Now we find ourselves in the knowledge of what is cheating. It is cheating to treat oneself as an object, or as an image to tend to, or as an icon.” SelfMemoirObjectivismObjectIcon Book:How Should a Person Be? Source: How Should a Person Be?
