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Paul Bowles
“Once you accept the fact that life isn't fun, you'll be much happier," his mother said to him.”
Paul Bowles, Let It Come Down

Paul Bowles
“Security is a false God. Begin to make sacrifices to it and you are lost.”
Paul Bowles

John   Gray
“It is a strange fancy to suppose that science can bring reason to an irrational world, when all it can ever do is give another twist to a normal madness.”
John Gray, Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals

Paul Bowles
“She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze.”
Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

António Damásio
“The neural basis for the self, as I see it, resides with the continuous reactivation of at least two sets of representations. One set concerns representations of key events in an individual's autobiography, on the basis of which a notion of identity can be reconstructed repeatedly, by partial activation in topologically organized sensory maps. ...
In brief, the endless reactivation of updated images about our identity (a combination of memories of the past and of the planned future) constitutes a sizable part of the state of self as I understand it.
The second set of representations underlying the neural self consists of the primordial representations of an individual's body ... Of necessity, this encompasses background body states and emotional states. The collective representation of the body constitute the basis for a "concept" of self, much as a collection of representations of shape, size, color, texture, and taste can constitute the basis for the concept of orange.”
António R. Damásio, Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain

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