"One of the peculiar ironies of being a human self in the Cosmos: A stranger approaching you in the street will in a second's glance see you whole, size you up, place you in a way in which you cannot and never will, even though you have spent a lifetime with yourself, live in the Century of the Self, and therefore ought to know yourself best of all."

-- Walker Percy

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“When you are doing things together, you are inside the collective mind, and share psychic knowledge with each other. That is how you become one.”
“I don't really think so much of what kind of man I am. I just do what I like and enjoy, and let other people think what they want.”

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“Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas.”
“I have a flat in Paris and go there a lot, but the Eurostar's much more civilised than flying.”
“In work we act under the predominant motive of external, rational necessities; in pleasure, under the predominant motive of other, equally general necessities of human nature. Rest or recreation is the element in which the personality seeks to renew its strength from these stimuli that exhaust the reserve of human resources. It's an element introduced into life by the person himself.”

Source : Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky, Michael R. Katz (1989). “What Is to Be Done?”, p.315, Cornell University Press
“The hydrogen bomb is not the answer to the Western peoples' dream of full and final insurance of their security ... While it has increased their striking power it has sharpened their anxiety and deepened their sense of insecurity.”
“Most people spend most of their days doing what they do not want to do in order to earn the right, at times, to do what they may desire.”

Source : George Cooper Stevens, John Mason Brown (1974). “Speak for yourself, John: the life of John Mason Brown, with some of his letters and many of his opinions”, Viking Adult
“Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.”

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