"The outsider is not sure who he is. He has found an “I”, but it is not his true “I”.’ His main business is to find his way back to himself."

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Source : Colin Wilson (2014). “The Outsider”, p.194, Diversion Books

Colin Wilson

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“Let's continue to stand up for those who are vulnerable to being left out or marginalized.”
“We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.”

Source : Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”
“When I try to get work in the US all they say is that I need to lose weight - but I bet they never said that to Mae West.”
“The only purpose of an engagement ring is to show you 'belong' to someone, and your man makes bank.”
“The sun glistened on a drop of water as it fell from his hand to his knee. David wiped it off, but it left no tidemark: there was no more dirt to rub away. He took a deep breath and shivered. He was David. Everything else was washed away, the camp, its smell, its touch--and now he was David, his own master, free--free as long as he could remain so.”
“The year 1896 ... marked the beginning of what has been aptly termed the heroic age of Physical Science. Never before in the history of physics has there been witnessed such a period of intense activity when discoveries of fundamental importance have followed one another with such bewildering rapidity.”
“You don't know you're wearing a leash if you sit by the peg all day”
“The world of chemical reactions is like a stage, on which scene after scene is ceaselessly played. The actors on it are the elements.”

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