Rainer Maria Rilke on the unlived life.
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.
Donna Tartt • The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
Our former selves are never dead. We speak to them, arguing against decisions we know will bring only unhappiness,
William Kent Krueger • This Tender Land
Did she model the Alysha beneath the masks and façades that every one of us wears, or did she model the masks too, the person Alysha tried to be whenever anyone was watching? Even the cracksman who’d made her hadn’t been able to give a certain answer to that. A mixture of the two, he’d said. The person she presented to the world, the parts she
... See moreSam Peters • From Darkest Skies
“At which point do we confront the fact that we live one life and perform another, or others, attempting to make our momentary forgetting true and lasting forgetting?”
Excerpt From
Finite and Infinite Games
James Carse
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"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."
~ Carl Jung
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