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“some call it influence, others call it peer pressure, i call it choice”

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“Crusoe named his small island Despair, and the choice was apt. Despair—the deep, existential kind—stems from the awareness that we are each marooned on the island of our self, that we will live and die there alone. We are cut off from all the other islands, no matter how numerous and nearby they appear; we cannot swim across the straits, or swap our island for a different one, or even know for sure that the other ones exist outside the spell of our own senses. Certainly we cannot know the particulars of life on those islands—the full inner experience of our mother or our best friend or our sweetheart or our child. There is, between us and them—between us and everything—an irremediable rift.”

Book:Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error

Source: Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error

“I don’t want to continue being Jorge Luis Borges; I want to be someone else. I hope that my death will be total; I hope to die in body and soul.”

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“There is peace in the present when one's aware of how to manage what works for them and what drains them with a calm mind.”

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“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.”

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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!”

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Book:How Should a Person Be?

Source: How Should a Person Be?

“Close enough is not close enough.”

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Author:Jennifer Pierre

“You can be but cannot become yourself.”

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“I am now quite content in my seeking pleasure in society be it country or town, a sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.”

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Book:Wuthering Heights

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“The idea that we possess a true self serves a hugely important psychological purpose. If we have an essential and unchanging identity, one we are destined to discover sooner or later, then the beliefs we hold, the choices we make, the person we become—none of this happens by chance. Instead, the entire course of our lives is inevitable, dictated by the certainty that our real self will eventually surface.”

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Book:Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error

Source: Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error

“The doctor had succeeded with a profound achievement while in the clutches of the otherworld. This made him different from the beings that inhabited this strange place; the shadows with vacant faces and absent expressions. After an incalculable amount of time, and with incredible persistence, he had fought against the gravitational pull intent on stealing his memories, and managed to maintain a sense of self.”

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Book:The Tetris Effect: A Fantasy Thriller Novel

Source: The Tetris Effect: A Fantasy Thriller Novel