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In trying not to look at the real image of themselves, they look at the more comfortable one--the ego. In refusing to come to the full consciousness of themselves, they come under the sway of passions and desires, tendencies and feelings which smugly but deceitfully replace it.

-- Notebooks Category 8: The Ego > Chapter 3 : Psyche > # 77