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Paul Murray • The Bee Sting: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023
We organise much of our lives around reassuring ourselves about the accuracy of the hallucinated model world inside our skulls.
Will Storr • The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better
Writing fiction often contains an element of self-hypnosis, of flying in the dark.
Teju Cole • Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time (Berlin Family Lectures)
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Gregory David Roberts • Shantaram: A Novel
“Not many people can confront the truth about themselves. If they did they’d run a mile, would take an immediate and profound dislike to the person in whose skin they’d learned to sit quite tolerably all these years.”
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
For Freud, the self is – rather than a soul with an eternal nature – a complex amalgam of biological and social impulses, many of them quite ‘Darwinian’ in their primal mechanisms, and the conscious mind is only the surface of the ‘unconscious’, where hidden, largely irrational impulses, repressed desires,
David Bentley Hart • The Story of Christianity
Self-knowledge includes the understanding that the self we want to know is about to disappear. What we can understand is the way we occupy this frontier between the known and the unknown, the way we hold the conversation of life, the figure we cut at that edge, but a detailed audit of the self is not possible and diminishes us in the attempt to est
... See moreDavid Whyte • Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
to the extent that we are identified as a ‘self’, we are merely a performance of the possibilities latent in language.