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Zidrou
“To all the fish, big or small. May a wave carry you to the top of a tree some day. And from that summit, may you contemplate the immensity of the ocean.”
Zidrou & Aimée de Jongh, L'obsolescence programmée de nos sentiments

Raymond Tallis
“There is a Greek proverb: ‘Each is furthest from himself’. It is open to many interpretations, but this is what it means to me: because we look out from within ourselves at the world around us, we tend, in a rather fundamental sense, to overlook ourselves. We are the dark centre, or the invisible origin, of the world with which we interact. At the heart of our concern with ourselves is a taking-for-granted, which prevents us from noticing at the deepest level that we exist. ‘I need this’, ‘I want that’, ‘I must do the other’ distracts us from the fact that ‘I’, the one who needs, wants, must do, is ourself; or that there is one who needs, wants, must do, and that one is I. In unremitting pursuit of our direct and indirect self-interests, and our responsibilities, we look away from the self that is interested and bears responsibility. It is presupposed but unvoiced.”
Raymond Tallis, I Am: A Philosophical Inquiry into First-Person Being

Randall Jarrell
“Wisdom, said William James,

Is learning what to overlook. And I am wise
If that is wisdom.”
Randall Jarrell

Paul Valéry
“Men differ by what they show, and have in common what they hide.”
Paul Valéry

Vivian Gornick
“The presence in a memoir or an essay of the truth speaker - the narrator that a writer pulls out of his or her own agitated and boring self to organize a piece of experience - it was about this alone that I felt I had something to say; and it was to those works in which such a narrator comes through strong and clear that I was invariably drawn.”
Vivian Gornick, The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative

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