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Henry James
: The terrible fluidity of self-revelation.
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Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real you never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as trying to know how you really look. Ten different mirrors show you ten different faces.
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What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere -- it is an art form in itself.
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Virginia Woolf :
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But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world -- a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.
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Thomas Carlyle :
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In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance. In the symbol proper, what we can call a symbol, there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation of the Infinite; the Infinite is made to blend itself with the Finite, to stand visible, and as it were, attainable there. By symbols, accordingly, is man guided and commanded, made happy, made wretched.
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Salvador Dali :
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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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Gustave Flaubert :
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And all this time she was torn by wild desires, by rage, by hatred. The trim folds of her dress hid a heart in turmoil, and her reticent lips told nothing of the storm. She was in love with Léon, and she sought the solitude that allowed her to revel undisturbed in his image.
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W H Auden :
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
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What is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding? It is the deepest part of autobiography.
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Dorothy Thompson :
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Well, it is our fate to live in a time of crisis. To live in a time when all forms and values are being challenged. In other and more easy times, it was not, perhaps, necessary for the individual to confront himself with a clear question: What is it that you really believe? What is it that you really cherish? What is it for which you might, actually, in a showdown, be willing to die? . . . I say, with all the reticence which such large, pathetic words evoke, that one cannot exist today as a person— one cannot exist in full consciousness— without having to have a showdown with one's self, without having to define what it is that one lives by, without being clear in one's mind what matters and what does not matter. (1939)
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Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
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I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.
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She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.
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Summer afternoon -- summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.
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