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 "In a way goodness and truth seem to come out of the depths of the soul, and when we really know something we feel that we've always known it.

Yet also it's terribly distant, farther than any star. We're sort of stretched out. It's like beyond the world, not in the clouds or in heaven, but a light that shows the world, this world, as it really is." – Iris Murdoch, Above the Gods

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"If you should ever turn your will to things outside your control in order to impress someone, be sure that you have wrecked your whole purpose in life." – Epictetus

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Annie Mueller:

Compensation is part of survival.

But sometimes we compensate for the lack of a skill instead of doing the work to gain the skill.

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"It's true, what all those nonjournal writers suspect of us: we are writing about them. It's impossible not to." – Christina Baldwin

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