Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

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Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

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The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.

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The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.
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I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.

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I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.
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Asking Being Yourself Individuality Query Question
Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn’t now, I couldn’t give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me.

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Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn’t now, I couldn’t give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me.
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I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is a denial. But to whom can I be responsible, and why should I be, when you refuse to see me?

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I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is a denial. But to whom can I be responsible, and why should I be, when you refuse to see me?
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.

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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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Commercial rock ‘n’ roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.

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Commercial rock ‘n’ roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.
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Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.

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Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
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That … is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.

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That … is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.
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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids – and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids – and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.

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Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.
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Man’s hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.

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Man’s hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.
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Soaring Vulture
In order to travel far you have to be detached.

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In order to travel far you have to be detached.
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Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.
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There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

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There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
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Dangerous Few Permission Prohibited Sleepwaker World
You start Saul, and end up Paul,’ my grandfather had often said. ‘When you’re a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul – though you still Sauls around on the side.
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The world is a possibility if only you’ll discover it.

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The world is a possibility if only you’ll discover it.
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