M.M. Bakhtin

“The way in which I create myself is by means of a quest. I go out into the world in order to come back with a self.”

“It is quite possible to imagine and postulate a unified truth that requires a plurality of consciousnesses, one that cannot... be fitted into the bounds of a single consciousness, one that is, so to speak, by its very nature full of event potential and is born at a point of contact among various consciousnesses....”