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"As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it."
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"I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing."
"The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler."
"You have to know yourself enough to be able to choose friends that you will be compatible with."
"For many years, I searched for this connection outside of myself but always to no avail. It was only when I turned inward did I find this power."
"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."
"We make such messes in this life, both accidently and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything any neater. It just masks what is below. It's only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are."
"The mind becomes much more beautiful, when man could see his own weaknesses."
"Be yourself, that is all there is."
"As long as you are focused on your own problems, you live and think as a self-centered man."
"Are you like, a crazy person?I'm quite sure they will say so."
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"The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self."
"Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom."
"There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point."
"Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble."
"Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling."
"There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time."
"To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self."
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