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Only accidental bits of stuff like the earth, floating in momentary equilibrium between extremes of cold and heat, permit such a fragile unlikelihood as life. From the perspective of recoil we see ourselves striving endlessly and hopelessly against a universe that is out of scale with our modest proportions. Self-confirmation and recoil are practically life itself, our moment by moment barricade against the tremendous forces that will overcome us, today or tomorrow.
... habit is, of all the plants of human growth, the one that has least need of nutritious soil in order to live, and is the first to appear on the most seemingly barren rock....
Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past (1913–1927) 1981, II: 123
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© 1989 Alexandra Pierce and Roger Pierce
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Pierce, A., Pierce, R. (1989). Self-Determination. In: Expressive Movement. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6523-3_7
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