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  • Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Self Quotes , Two Quotes
  • A colleague once described political theorists as people who were obsessed with two dozen books; after half a century of grappling with Mill's essay On Liberty, or Hobbes's Leviathan, I have sometimes thought two dozen might be a little on the high side.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Ryan Quotes , Book Quotes , Two Quotes
  • Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons?
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Two Quotes , Spoons Quotes
  • I go to live in Maine for the summer. Without computer, and without the telephone service we are mercifully without the faxes and e-mails. So it's really about two and a half months that I'll feel like I can recover some silence in my life...which is so hard to find.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Lightman Quotes , Summer Quotes , Two Quotes