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Journey to Self-Realization (Collected Talks and Essays, Vol 3)

by Paramahansa Yogananda

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Jun 22, 2026 08:11AM

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“I love myself and loathe myself more than other men. One of these excesses attracts women, but which?”
― John Updike, A Month of Sundays

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“a boy with an unspeakable past was a man with an unendurable future. He was good to look at, good to dance with, probably good to sleep with: but he was no longer good for love.”
― James Baldwin, Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

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“When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death

tags: grief-and-loss

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“Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death

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“Those who crusade not for God in themselves but against the devil in others, never succeed in leaving the world better, but leave it as it was or sometimes even perceptibly worse than it was before the crusade began.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Devils of Loudun

tags: philosophy

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