Oneself Quotes
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I can detach myself from the world. If there is a better world to detach oneself from than the one functioning at the moment I have yet to hear of it.
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I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?
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When a man's struggle begins within oneself, the man is worth something.
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What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.
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Self esteem means having an accurate, true, concept of oneself.
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Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
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An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.
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One begins by plaguing oneself to no purpose in order to be true to nature, and one concludes by working quietly from one's own palette alone, and then nature is the result.
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I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention.
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Guard against idols - yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself.
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Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in all of nature, in trees for instance, I see expression and a soul.
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Climbing is not a battle with the elements, nor against the law of gravity. It's a battle against oneself.
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It takes loneliness in oneself to recognize it in another.
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The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
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One can fall in love as often as a tree grows leaves. It is perfectly natural but not free of guilt and complications, unless one takes oneself to be a leaf.
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one never knows really how things are with other people, they just do always seem more spirited than oneself somehow.
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Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
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Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair.
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To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.
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Everyone hasn't got the power to free oneself and go away to another place or country... No one is capable of freeing oneself from society.
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There is so much one would rather not believe until one has seen for oneself whether it is true.
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If one completes the journey to one's own heart, one will find oneself in the heart of everyone else.
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It is rather depressing to think that one will still be oneself when one is dead, but I dare say one won't be so critical then.
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One cannot learn so well as by experiencing it oneself.
