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“Fear is a habit like any other, and habits kill what is essential in ourselves.”
― Second Place
― Second Place
“Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos. Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons.”
― I and Thou
― I and Thou
“All mediocrity flies from the light.”
― Waiting for God
― Waiting for God
“The mother of all lies is the lie we persist in telling ourselves about ourselves. And since we are not brazen enough liars to make ourselves believe our own lie individually, we pool all our lies together and believe them because they have become the big lie uttered by the vox populi, and this kind of lie we accept as ultimate truth.”
― Merton's Palace of Nowhere: 40th Anniversary Edition
― Merton's Palace of Nowhere: 40th Anniversary Edition
“Why do we live so painfully in our fictions? Why do we suffer so, from the things we ourselves have invented?”
― Second Place
― Second Place
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