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"His attention was always centered on himself. Perhaps his greatest weakness. Charles could never stop thinking about Charles: the qualities he disliked in himself, his least aches, success he’d lost. If it made him unhappy he couldn’t forget it.These words shocked me. Sometimes you feel someone telling something not related to you at all, but then you find out you can be described that way quite easily. Matter of fact, I think I'm one of that "Inner Mirror Watcher" and the oblivion factor may be is crossdressing or occasional, but heavy use of alcohol...
One might divide the human race into those who can’t takes their eyes off the inner mirror and those who can manage to just get on with life, accepting the compromises and half measures.
Everybody seeks a bit of oblivion so they can turn away from themselves. Sex, literature, faith, liquor, music let some of us who talk to ourselves too much shut up for a bit. Charles chose drugs."