#introspection

Why does nothing change, even when you set out for a faraway place? ↗

— Kim Young-ha

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Consciousness of self was an inherent function of matter once it was organized as life, and if that function was enhanced it turned against the organism that bore it, strove to fathom and explain the very phenomenon that produced it, a hope-filled and hopeless striving of life to comprehend itself, as if nature were rummaging to find itself in itself - ultimately to no avail, since nature cannot be reduced to comprehension, nor in the end can life listen to itself. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#introspection #life #life

So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age. ↗

— John Gardner

#introspection #age

How shall I ever learn who I am when there is so much of me that belongs to someone else? ↗

— Madeline Claire Franklin

#family #introspection #life #self-awareness #the-poppet-and-the-lune

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion." [The Minotaur] ↗

— Albert Camus

#retreat #solitude #understanding

You can't lie to your soul. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#introspection #honesty

It is good for society to have this introspection. ↗

— Jacques Verges

#good #introspection

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection. ↗

— William Godwin

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I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on. ↗

— Brenda Lee

#go #i #introspection #lingered #must

She wrote that she, too, always felt an outsider "...even to myself. ↗

— Will Weaver

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