"I am not my own light unto myself."

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Source : "Dialogues on Metaphysics". Book by Nicolas Malebranche, Dialogue III, 1688.

Nicolas Malebranche

“It's success, not fame, that is quite addictive. I'm addicted to a lot of things and, as it happens, success is one of them.”
“For others, in spite of myself, from myself.”
“Other people canâ€™t cause us to be impatient unless we let them do so. In other words, others donâ€™t make us impatient. We make ourselves impatient, through our expectations and demands, fixated attachments and stuckness.”
“People call you this or that. But I can't respond because then it seems like I'm defensive, you know, what does it matter, really?”
“[Locating, from scratch, the gene related to a disease is like] trying to find a burned-out light bulb in a house located somewhere between the East and West coasts without knowing the state, much less the town or street the house is on.”
“I felt my whole life was a facsimile of a life.”

Source : "Q&A with Gotham Scribes Pete Hamill and Tama Janowitz". Interview with Boris Kachka, nymag.com.
“I was actually a huge tomboy growing up,”

Source : "Julia Jones calls 'Twilight' Wolf Pack a boy's club" by Abbey Schubert, www.mtv.com. August 31, 2011.
“The more we remember that we are part of the networks as human beings, the more we can act as human beings and not as corporate functions.”

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