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"You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself."
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"To attempt to know myself 'apart' from God is to choose to know nothing more than 'a part' of myself."
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"Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know."
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"The greatest person to know in life is yourself. There's no one who will treat you better."
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"To know oneself, one should assert oneself."
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"He hath always but slightly, known himself...King Lear."
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"Wisdom begins in knowing the self."
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"The more you know yourself, the less you depend on external validation."
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"There are many things that you can avoid by just knowing something. Knowledge of self is the most notable knowledge I pursue. By knowing myself, I avoided dead dreams and a meaningless life."
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"You have to know your own mind inside out before you can know the minds of others."
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"You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself."
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"When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear."
Literature
"Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail."
Society
"When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying."
Mortality
"Hardship makes the world obscure."
Hardship
"How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature."
Literature
"I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts."
Communication
"We feel a private thrill, admit it, at the sight of beauty in flames. We wish to blast all the fine old things to oblivion and replace them with tasteless identicalstructures."
Observation
"I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues."
Art
"I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism."
Movies
"Steffie took my hand and we walked past the fruit bins, an area that extended about forty-five yards along one wall. The bins were arranged diagonally and backed my mirrors that people accidentally punched when reaching for fruit in upper rows."
Observation
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