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Peter Keating

By: manu59 | Posted Aug 21, 2010 | General | 221 Views

They have

no self. They live within others. They live second-hand. Look at Peter

Keating. ... I’ve looked at him—at what’s left of him—and it’s helped me to

understand. He’s paying the price and wondering for what sin and telling

himself that he’s been too selfish. In what act or thought of his has there ever

been a self? What was his aim in life? Greatness—in other people’s eyes.

Fame, admiration, envy—all that which comes from others. Others dictated

his convictions, which he did not hold, but he was satisfied that others

believed he held them. Others were his motive power and his prime concern.

He didn’t want to be great, but to be thought great. He didn’t want to build,

but to be admired as a builder. He borrowed from others in order to make an

impression on others. There’s your actual selflessness. It’s his ego that he’s

betrayed and given up. But everybody calls him selfish. ...

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