#self awareness

It seems to me at times that I am incapable of beginning a life in real life, because it has seemed to me that I have lost

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I love those who do not know how to live except by going under, for they are those who cross over.

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There is nothing so powerful as truth — and often nothing so strange.

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If a person continues to see only giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.

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Sometimes in the course of conversation, the sound of our own voice disconcerts us and misleads us into making assertions

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True experience consists in reducing one’s contact with reality whilst at the same time intensifying one’s analysis of

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An unconscious relationship is more powerful than a conscious one.

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To externalize impressions is more a way of persuading ourselves that we have them rather than actually having them.

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The ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.

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There is a supreme lucidity, which is the precisely calculated awareness which is called madness.

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A man’s life is wasted when he lives on, so deceived by the joys of life or by its sorrows, that he never becomes

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Love brings to light the noble and hidden qualities of a lover—his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to

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The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities,

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The instinctive persistence of life over and above any intelligence is something that provides matter for some of my

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I’ve never loved anyone. The most that I’ve loved are my sensations – states of conscious seeing, impressions gathered

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The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it,

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I’m older than Time and Space, because I’m conscious. Things derive from me; the whole of Nature is the offspring of

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than

_Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human_