"Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer."

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Source : Hugh Kingsmill (1949). “The progress of a biographer”

Hugh Kingsmill

#Egotism Quotes

“I only want people around me who can do the impossible.”
“My advice to the reader approaching a poem is to make the mind still and blank. Let the poem speak. This charged quiet mimics the blank space ringing the printed poem, the nothing out of which something takes shape.”
“I followed her into the library. The pale light from our chamber below dissipated in the room, but I could still make out â€“ my heart leapt at the sight â€“ row after row, shelf above shelf, floor to ceiling, a city of books. Speck turned to me and asked, Now, what shall we read first?”

Source : Keith Donohue (2011). “The Stolen Child”, p.88, Random House
“Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.”
“It's okay to screw up. It's what we do afterward that defines us.”

Source : FaceBook post by Susan Mallery from Feb 20, 2015
“I'm not very good at multi-tasking. Most people aren't, but they think they are. The mind is really better when you're really focused on one thing.”
“What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature.”
“To tell you the truth, I've never been really good at learning other people's stuff. I've been playing since I was 11, and I never took lessons. I kind of learned through hit and miss. I had the patience just because I loved guitar so much.”

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