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Nobody can honestly think of himself as a
strong character because, however successful he may be in overcoming them,
he is necessarily aware of the doubts and temptations that accompany every
important choice.
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-W. H. Auden
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An intellectual is a person whose mind
watches itself.
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-Albert Camus
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The mind of each man is the man himself.
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-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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If you start to think about your physical
or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
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-Johan Wolfgang von Goethe
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.
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-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If you hate a person, you hate something in
him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't
disturb us.
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-Herman Hesse
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No one is truly literate who cannot read
his own heart.
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-Eric Hoffer
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Our quarrel with the world is an echo of
the endless quarrel proceeding within us.
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-Eric Hoffer
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*He notices nothing
outside of himself, the entirety of his focus is internally directed.
His oblivion may be his greatest attribute.
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-A.M. Homes
The End of Alice, 1996
Chapter 4
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*We all have a face that
we hide away forever,
And we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.
Some are satin, some are steel, some are silk and some are leather.
They're the faces of the stranger and we love to try them on.
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-Billy Joel
The Stranger, 1977
"The Stranger"
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Everything that irritates us about others
can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
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-Carl Jung
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When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we
do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to
death-ourselves.
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-Eda LeShan
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[H]uman beings go around admiring the
mountain heights, the mighty tides of the seas, the broad streams of
the rivers, the circle of the ocean, and the orbits of the starts, but
do not care to look more deeply into themselves.
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-The character of St. Augustine, in
Petrarch's Ascent of Mt. Ventoux
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*[M]an is his most
bewildering enigma.
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-Ayn Rand
The Romantic Manifesto, 1971
"The Psycho-Epistemology of Art", 1965
Originally appeared in The Objectivist Newsletter, April, 1965
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*[T]he only direct,
introspective knowledge of man anyone possesses is of himself.
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-Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead, 1943
"Introduction to Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition", May, 1968
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After all, one knows one's weak points so
well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and
invent others.
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-Edith Wharton
Letter, November 19, 1907
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