7And if not a better self, at least someone to blame for our shortfalls.
Every intense desire is perhaps basically a desire to be different from what we are. Hence, probably, the imperiousness of the desire for fame, which is a desire for a self utterly unlike the real self.
Monday, June 4, 2018
A desire for a self utterly unlike the real self.
From The Passionate State of Mind by Eric Hoffer.
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