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“The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.”
― The Wisdom of Insecurity
― The Wisdom of Insecurity
“It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about “I.”
― The Wisdom of Insecurity
― The Wisdom of Insecurity
“You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.”
― Wisdom Of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
― Wisdom Of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
“Indeed, one of the highest pleasures is to be more or less unconscious of one’s own existence, to be absorbed in interesting sights, sounds, places, and people. Conversely, one of the greatest pains is to be self-conscious, to feel unabsorbed and cut off from the community and the surrounding world.”
― The Wisdom of Insecurity
― The Wisdom of Insecurity
“The more we accustom ourselves to understanding the present in terms of memory, the unknown by the known, the living by the dead, the more desiccated and embalmed, the more joyless and frustrated life becomes. So protected from life, man becomes a sort of mollusc encrusted in a hard shell of “tradition,” so that when at last reality breaks through, as it must, the tide of pent-up fear runs wild.”
― Wisdom Of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
― Wisdom Of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
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