Only the shallow know themselves.  Phrases and Philosophies for the use of the Young

“[…] she was feeling something new here. Or something old that she had long buried. [It] reminded her that she was, first and foremost, a human living on a planet. Almost everything she had done in her life […] – almost everything she had bought and worked for and consumed – had taken her further away from understanding that she and all humans were really just one of nine million species.” Midnight Library

She imagined seeing herself as just another brilliant freak of nature. Just another sentient animal, trying their best. Midnight Library

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”   1984