Saturday, October 22, 2005

I Owe Myself

- "But does a man owe nothing to himself?"

- "Nothing that I know of. I am under no obligation to myself. How can I divide myself and say the one half of me is indebted to the other? To my mind, it is a mere fiction of speech."

- "But [from where], then, [does] such a fiction [come]?"

- "From the dim sense of a real obligation, I suspect - the object of which is mistaken. I suspect it really springs from our relation to the unknown God, so vaguely felt that a false form is readily accepted for its embodiment..."

- George MacDonald

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