The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever. - "John Updike"

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
John Updike

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The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.
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The city overwhelmed our expectations. The Kiplingesque grandeur of Waterloo Station, the Eliotic despondency of the brick row in Chelsea
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