The subsistence mentality of a person is a prison in which his personal joy is detained. If you want to live in joy, you don't live for yourself alone. Live for others too!
From so much self-revising, I__e destroyed myself. From so much self-thinking, I__ now my thoughts and not I
The Book of Disquiet
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From so much self-revising, I__e destroyed myself. From so much self-thinking, I__ now my thoughts and not I
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