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“Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your head into the stanchions and munch contentedly until you die. Others use you for their purposes. Not once do you look outside the stable to lift your head and be your own creature.”
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“You know the things I went through as a youngster, coming into the business, all the good, the bad and the ugly that came. I'd had a rough life. I grew up single parent. My mom, she was like a father to me.”
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“Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick on himself, needs an ally. Mine has been tobacco.”
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“Don't be a pawn in somebody's game. Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on”
Source : Anne Rice (2013). “The Mayfair Witches Series 3-Book Bundle: Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos”, p.945, Ballantine Books
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“A lot of people get flipped out if you're quiet. They say stuff like, What are you thinking? And if they don't start interrogating you, they start talking, going on and on about stuff that's totally irrelevant, and the silence gets so big and loud that it's scary.”
Source : A.M. Homes (2012). “Jack”, p.179, Granta Books
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“If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.”
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“To secure one's freedom the Christian must experience God's light which is God's truth.”
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“We can only know in the nervous system what we have known in behavior first.”
Source : Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
