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It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame ...

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Our Christian destiny is, in fact, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all i...

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In the pre-war era when itinerant home-remedy salesmen still wandered the country, they had a tradit...

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Akira KurosawaSomething Like an Autobiography

One of the reasons we judge each other so harshly in this world of parenting is because... we percei...

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Students of public speaking continually ask, "How can I overcomeself-consciousness and the fear that...

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I’ve come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose sel...

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A play that takes as its burden the meaning of self-consciousness may hint that inner freedom can be...

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The faith in an afterlife, however much our reason ridicules it, very modestly extends our faith tha...

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The mind cannot fall asleep as long as it watches itself. Only when the mind moves unwatched and bec...

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In fact we do not try to picture the afterlife, nor is it our selves in our nervous tics and optical...

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Nobody would have anything to do with him. He began to drop things and to trip. He had a shy and hop...

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The sum of productive forces, capital funds and social forms of intercourse, which every individual ...

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‎What color is a chameleon placed on a mirror?...The chameleon responding to its own shifting image ...

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Kevin Kelly (editor)Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines

Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for...

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Mignon McLaughlinThe Complete Neurotic's Notebook

She tries to maintain a nondescript exterior; she learns the sideways glance instead of looking at p...

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There is certainly no hope left of getting away. And it isn't even terrible; it's possibly funny, if...

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Self-conciousness is the enemy of all creativity.

Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is becaus...

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What one should add here is that self-consciousness is itself unconscious: we are not aware of the p...

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