We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves. - V. S. Naipaul

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In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety, dissatisfaction, agony of mind that nourish science.

V. S. Naipaul

We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.

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The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

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One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.

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Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.

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The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.

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My life is short. I can't listen to banality.

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Their property held them in chains. . . chains which shackled their courage and choked their faith and hampered their judgment and throttled their soul. . . If they stored up their treasure in heaven, they would not now have an enemy and a thief within their own household. . . They think of themselves as owners, whereas it is they rather who are owned: enslaved as they are to their own property, they are not the masters of their money but its slaves.

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