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“We reflect each other as mirrors do, but there is no need to look at mirrors that distort our reflection.”

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“I suppose I'm what they call a decadent, one whose spirit is outwardly defined by those sad glimmers of artificial eccentricity that incarnate an anxious and artful soul in unusual words. Yes, I think that's what I am, and that I'm absurd.”

Self Anxiety Absurdity Decadence Eccentricity Artfulness

Book:The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“When I'm in a library, any library, I have the sense of being translated into a purely verbal dimension by a conjuring trick I've never quite understood. I know that my full, true story is there, somewhere on the shelves, and all I need is time and the chance to find it. I never do. My story remains elusive because it is never the definitive story.”

Self Stories Books Transformation Library Story Libraries

Book:Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions

Source: Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions

“As long as a self is driven by an id to a Thou, it is not a matter of love, either. In love the self is not driven by the id, but rather the self chooses the Thou.”

Love Self Ego Id

Book:Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning

Source: Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning

“He is convinced that the people who might mean something to him will always misjudge him and pass him by. He is not so much afraid of loneliness as he is of accepting cheap substitutes; of making excuses to himself for a teacher who flatters him, of waking up some morning to find himself admiring a girl merely because she is accessible. He has a dread of easy compromises, and he is terribly afraid of being fooled.”

Self Existence Destiny

Book:One of Ours

Source: One of Ours

“I would make you my queen because I want you. I want you all the time.”

Romance Ya Fantasy Grishaverse Nikolai Lantsov Zoya Nazyalensky Grisha Rule Of Wolves Ravka Zoyalai

Book:Rule of Wolves

Source: Rule of Wolves

“I tell you I can't be bothered with things like that. I've got a soul above buttons.”

Self Perspective Ref Ch 6

Book:Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Source: Keep the Aspidistra Flying

“But I will confess  that I began as an astronomer—a liking for bright flashes, vast distances, unreachable things, a hand stretched always toward the furthest limit— and that my longing for you has not taken me very far from that original desire to inscribe a comet’s orbit around the walls of our city, to gently stroke the surface of the stars.”

Inspirational Self Stars Astronomer The Origin Of Things

Author:Troy Jollimore

“There is something more dangerous than the death of one’s body. It is “the undiscovered self”; being alive without knowing why.”

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Book:Leaders' Watchwords

Source: Leaders' Watchwords

“For a moment the radio wavered between stations and I was so busy making myself marvelous.”

Self Chance Radio Chances

Book:In the Voice of a Minor Saint

Source: In the Voice of a Minor Saint

“Great mysteries inhabit the threshold of my being.”

Author:Fernando Pessoa