"The divine is God's concern; the human, man's. My concern is neither the divine nor the human, not the true, good, just, free, etc., but solely what is mine, and it is not a general one, but is -- unique, as I am unique. Nothing is more to me than myself!"

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Source : Max Stirner (2012). “The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority”, p.5, Courier Corporation

Max Stirner

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“Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.”
“You're only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure.”
“For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.”
“I think it's the most responsible thing you can do, to have kids. It's not something to be taken lightly. I don't have that gene that people have to replicate.”
“I know and share the many sorrows a human being can experience, but I do not cling to them; they pass through me, like life itself, as a broad eternal stream...and life continues...”

Source : Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.308, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
“Even when I'm nervous, I think I'm able to turn that nervous energy into strength.”
“It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures.”
“As I've moved along - not only my life, but my career and things like that - you look at yourself and start going, 'Oh, man, are you still doing what you set out to do? Are the ideals you had still the same?' Sometimes you measure up and sometimes you don't.”

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