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"As he had once said to someone in England, though he did not care to remember whom, he had liked the sight of the sea because it represented his escape from England. And he had escaped.But she had said that perhaps it was from himself he wished to escape and that it could not be done. For wherever he went, he must inevitably take himself along too."
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"It is much more important to be oneself than anything else."

"Your EGO feeds on the volume of the mental clutter, the greater the intensity the more crystallized is your EGO. Man dominates and exherts his mental superiority over others. Be Aware! Stop Mental Clutter, Kill EGO, Be YOU!"

"It's always good to know that you have been the best even though deep inside you know you will never be better than that."

"Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man but not free to be another."

"Sometimes I act like I have my shit together more than I do. Sometimes I act like I don't have my shit together as much as I do. I'm done acting. I'd rather just be okay with however together my shit is at the time, and still do my best to show up, as I am."

"If you just can't get rid of envy, then start creating a life, so that if you saw yourself from afar, you'd be envious of you."

"I have tried everything except being myself!"
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"My mind cannot grasp forever,' she told him. 'There must surely be an end somewhere. But the big question is-what it beyond the end?"

"Was he a pleasant man hiding behind a mask of seeming carelessness or an unpleasant man hiding behind a mask of charm & smiles? Or like most humans, was he a dizzying mix of contradictory charactersticks?"

"But that is what life is all about, he said. 'It is about dreaming and making those dreams come true with effort and determination - and love."

"Could a love of that magnitude die? If it was true love, could it ever die? Was there such a thing as true love?"

"There were certain moments upon which the whole of the future course of one's life might turn. And almost inevitably they popped out at one without any warning at all, leaving one with no time to consider or engage in a reasoned debate with oneself. One had to make a split second decision, and much depended upon it. Perhaps everything."

"The longing for something beyond yourself, beyond anything you have ever known or dreamed of?"

"But a mother-son relationship is not a coequal one, is it? He is lonely with only you just as you are lonely with only him."
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