He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a subject in the third person and a verb in the past tense.

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Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

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There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.

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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

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The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme - thinking too much.

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I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.

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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.

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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.

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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

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I nourish myself with what's left over of me and it's very little. There is left over however a certain secret silence.

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