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Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as… from a lack of bread. – Richard Wright, Native Son, 1940

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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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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering. – St.Augustine

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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of. – Michel de Montaigne

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Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time. – Timothy Leary

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