a man defines himself by his make-believe as well as by his sincere impulses.
Albert Camus • The Myth of Sisyphus (Vintage International)
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a man defines himself by his make-believe as well as by his sincere impulses.
do we create a persona or do we live until we discover what persona we have become without knowing, the persona we really are confortable beeing?
whatever the outcome of cultural conventions and conditioning may be, if we take the sense of self that is implicit in them to be an absolute and immortal truth, oblivious to the cultural contexts that give it substance and significance, we are likely to become as confused as we would be if we aspired to meet a fictional character from a film in
... See moreAndrew Spira • The Invention of the Self
That emerging cognitive narrative becomes indiscernibly woven into perception, filtering the sensory world through its hopes, comparisons, judgments and disappointments. And it gradually becomes central to our developing sense of self: the story of ‘me’, who I am.