introspection quotes

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The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares its joy.
He moved with the shades of the dead and the dead-born and the unborn and the never-to-be-born, in a Limbo purged of desire.
Imaginary frontiers invisible to the eye of flesh
I, of whom I know nothing, I know my eyes are open, because of the tears that pour from them unceasingly.
How all becomes clear and simple when one opens an eye on the within, having of course previously exposed it to the without, in or ...
... a curious superstition. This is the belief that, if there be introspection at all, it must give exhaustive and infallible info ...
What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere--it is an art form in itself.
O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!
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Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real "you" never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as trying to ...
I had drawn away into the salt,
myself, a shell
emptied of life.
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