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  1. Anne Carson _ Eros the Bittersweet

    When an individual appreciates that he alone is responsible for the content and coherence of his person, an influx like eros becomes a concrete personal threat. So in the lyric poets, love is something that assaults or invades the body of the lover to wrest control of it from him, a personal struggle of will and physique between the god and his victim. The poets describe this struggle from within a consciousness – perhaps new in the world – of the body as a unity of limbs, senses and self, amazed at its own vulnerability.
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  2. Anne Carson _ Eros the Bittersweet

    Then the edge asserts itself. You are not a god. You are not that enlarged self. Indeed, you are not even a whole self, as you now see. Your new knowledge of possibilities is also a knowledge of what is lacking in the actual.
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  3. Antony John _ Five Flavors of Dumb

    Not at all. It's why people come. They say it's about looking smart, or beautiful, or professional, but it's not. Gray-haired ladies try to recapture their former brunette. Brunettes want to go blond. Other women go for colors that don't arise innature. Each group thinks it's completely different than the others, but I don't see it that way. I've watched them looking at themselves in the mirror, and they're not interested in conforming or rebelling, they just want to walk out of here feeling like themselves again.
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  4. Ayn Rand _ The Fountainhead

    A man's spirit is his self. That entity which is his consciousness. To think, to feel, to judge, to act are functions of the ego.
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  5. Don De Grazia _ American Skin

    If everybody spent enough time worrying about their own goddamn selves, no one would have to worry about anyone else.
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  6. Ayn Rand _ The Fountainhead

    Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.
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  7. Ayn Rand _ The Fountainhead

    To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?
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  8. joan didion _ Slouching Towards Bethlehem

    I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were. I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be…
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  9. Joan Didion _ Slouching Towards Bethlehem

    We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.
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  10. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez _ Love in the Time of Cholera

    ...he allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
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  11. Gabriel García Márquez _ Love in the Time of Cholera

    He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
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  12. Robert Louis Stevenson _ The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll

    I was driven to reflect deeply and inveterately on that hard law of life, which lies at the root of religion and is one of the most plentiful springs of distress. Though so profound a double-dealer, I was in no sense a hypocrite; both sides of me were in dead earnest; I was no more myself when I laid aside restraint and plunged in shame, than when I laboured, in the eye of day, at the futherance of knowledge or the relief of sorrow and suffering.
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