Self-knowledge

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To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.

The Book of Disquiet
Such as harm is when it hurts me not, is good which avails me not
One must not hope to be more than one can be
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse
The ego is not master in its own house
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves
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