"The idea of the self interests me a great deal. What is the self? And finding yourself, and which self? In a way, we're more than one self, but you somehow try to get to a rock bottom self."

-- Malcolm Morley

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“But after several hours, I go anyway, walking in silent sock feet, so as not to awaken the ghosts.”
“Therapy really did prepare me to become an empathic songwriter. As far as advice goes, it's a matter of self understanding first.”
“One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.”
“Theories of "natural law" and the "law of nations" are another excellent example of discussions destitute of all exactness. [...] "Natural law" is simply that law of which the person using the phrase approves[....]”

Source : Vilfredo Pareto (1942). “Non-logical conduct”
“Life, she realized, so often became a determined, relentless avoidance of pain-of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain had to be acknowledged and even touched so that one could move into it and through it and past it. Or else be destroyed by it.”

Source : Mary Balogh (2006). “Simply Love”, p.140, Delacorte Press
“India is calling Blood is calling to blood. Get up, we have no time to lose. Take up your arms ! we shall carve our way through the enemy's ranks, or if God wills, we shall die a martyr's death. And in our last sleep we shall kiss the road that will bring our Army to Delhi. The road to Delhi is the road to Freedom. Chalo Delhi (March to Delhi).”

Source : Subhas Chandra Bose (2007). “Chalo Delhi: writings and speeches, 1943-1945”
“If you play men, in a way it's easier. You can have a voicebox, you can have false hair, mustaches, wigs, you can have all kinds of stuff. But when you're playing women playing men, you only really have yourself to work with, plus tiny little extras.”

Source : "Up Close With 2011’s Oscar Women: Glenn Close, Carey Mulligan, Tilda Swinton". Interview with Steve Pond, www.thewrap.com. November 25, 2011.
“His face was just strange enough that she wanted to keep looking at it.”

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