"Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer."

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In order to settle down in the quiet of our own being we must learn to be detached from the results of our own activity. We must be content to live without watching ourselves live, to work with expecting immediate reward, to love without an instant satisfaction, and to exist without any special recognition. It is only when we are detached from ourselves that we can be at peace with ourselves.

— Thomas Merton