“ I am content to be to myself what I would be. What I choose to seem to myself makes me what I am. My own thought makes me me; my own thought of myself is me. ”
George MacDonald, Lilith (1895). copy citation
| Author | George MacDonald |
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| Source | Lilith |
| Topic | thoughts |
| Date | 1895 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1640/1640-h/1640-h.htm |
Context
““ Then, alas, your hour is come! ” “ I care not. I am what I am; no one can take from me myself! ” “ You are not the Self you imagine. ” “ So long as I feel myself what it pleases me to think myself, I care not. I am content to be to myself what I would be. What I choose to seem to myself makes me what I am. My own thought makes me me; my own thought of myself is me. Another shall not make me! ” “ But another has made you, and can compel you to see what you have made yourself. You will not be able much longer to look to yourself anything but what he sees you! You will not much longer have satisfaction in the thought of yourself.”
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