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“It would suppose a lot of renunciation and discomfort to show the Authentic Self into the world. Traveling through this life, people acknowledge so little about themselves and behave identified with one hundred masks, attracted by the huge gravity of falsity, simulating imposed patterns from social survival instincts. People get estranged from their nature, they get ashamed to reclaim their spirits due to educational, cultural and social enforcement. You will find some humans that shine their own Truth and never compromise it in any circumstances because they know their genuine nature and this fulfills them, they are always present and happy. They are recognised by their simplicity and understanding kindness. Their hearts are always open and peaceful and their light never dim.”

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“On the day I started my self-examination I asked myself these questions: ‘Am I interested in people? Do ideas excite me? Am I knowledgeable enough about novels to write one?’ I’m sure there were other questions, but I forget them now. My earliest memories involve being one among many other children, so I did not grow up with a self-centered view of myself, and because of my early jobs I knew a great deal about life. I had knocked about America as a lad, seen Europe in my college years and had been in the Pacific as an adult. But most important, I had always loved people, their histories, the prestigious things they did and said, and I especially relished their stories about themselves. I was so eager to collect information about everyone I met that I was practically a voyeur, and always it was their accounts that mattered, not mine, for I was a listener, not a talker. If the writing of fiction was the reporting of how human beings behaved, I was surely eligible, for I liked not only their stories, I liked them. As for ideas on which to base my writing, I was interested in everything—I was a kind of intellectual vacuum cleaner that picked up not only the oddest collection of facts imaginable but also solid material on the basic concerns of life.” —Chapter XI, “Intellectual Equipment”, page 297”