For I am -- or I was -- one of those people who prided themselves on their willpower, on their ability to make a decision and carry it through. This virtue, like most virtues, is ambiguity itself. People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception. Their decisions are not really decisions at all -- a real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things than can be named -- but elaborate systems of evasion, of illusion, designed to make themselves and the world appear to be what they and the world are not. - James Baldwin
Posted on: Sun, 04 May 2014 21:13:58 +0000
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