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  1. Hermann Hesse _ Demian. Die Geschichte von

    For awakened human beings, there was no obligation-none, none, none at all-except this: to search for yourself, become sure of yourself, feel your way forward along your own path, wherever it led.
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  2. Hermann Hesse _ Demian. Die Geschichte von

    I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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  3. Laura Dave _ The Divorce Party

    You think if you don't talk about it, you can just pretend everything is all right? Everything is not all right. Not with us, not with your parents, not with anything today. And if you let yourself go anywhere real with it, you have to acknowledge it.
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  4. Chuck Palahniuk _ Survivor

    It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.
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  5. Libba Bray _ The Sweet Far Thing

    Do you ever feel that way?""Lonely?"I search for the words. "Restless. As if you haven't really met yourself yet. As is you'd passed yourself once in the fog, and your heart leapt - 'Ah! There I Am! I've been missing that piece!' But it happens too fast, and then that part of you disappears into the fog again. And you spend the rest of your days looking for it."He nods, and I think he's appeasing me. I feel stupid of having said it. It's sentimental and true, and I've revealed a part of myself I shouldn't have."Do you know what I think?" Kartik says at last."What?""Sometimes, I think you can glimpse it in another.
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  6. John Banville _ The Untouchable

    I shall strip away layer after layer of grime -- the toffee-colored varnish and caked soot left by a lifetime of dissembling -- until I come to the very thing itself and know it for what it is. My soul. My self.
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  7. E.M. Forster _ Maurice

    People turned out to be alive. Hitherto he had supposed that they were what he pretended to be - flat pieces of cardboard stamped with a conventional design - but as he strolled about the courts at night and saw through the windows some men singing and others arguing and others at their books, there came by no process of reason a conviction that they were human beings with feelings akin to his own. He had never lived frankly since Mr Abrahams's school, and despite Dr Barry did not mean to begin; but he saw that while deceiving others he had been deceived, and mistaken them for the empty creatures he wanted them to think he was. No, they too had insides. "But, O Lord, not such an inside as mine.
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  8. Anne Tyler _ The Accidental Tourist

    It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.
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  9. Lewis Carroll _ Alice in Wonderland

    Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
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  10. Diana Gabaldon _ Voyager

    And I have wondered often, was I master in my soul, or did I become the slave of my own blade?
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  11. Jane Yolen _ Take Joy: A Writer's Guide to

    We write not just to show off, not just to tell, or only to have written. We write to know ourselves.
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  12. Azar Nafisi _ The Republic of Imagination:

    The price one pays when choosing exile is the loss of all that defines you as an individual. The only thing that makes this immense loss tolerable is the discovery of a self you did not know existed - of a true independence. That is the real gift of America, not its fabled wealth and prosperity.
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