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People often say that this or that person has not yet found himsel

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates. – Thomas Szasz, “Personal Conduct,” The Second Sin, 1973

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To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. – Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825

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A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. РAntoine de Saint-Exup̩ry, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French

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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. – Alan Watts

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