Oneself Quotes
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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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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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Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
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Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.
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All things are already complete in 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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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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I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention.
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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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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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one never knows really how things are with other people, they just do always seem more spirited than oneself somehow.
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For now she need not think of anybody. She coud be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others... and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures.
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Guard against idols - yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself.
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It takes loneliness in oneself to recognize it in another.
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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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Climbing is not a battle with the elements, nor against the law of gravity. It's a battle against oneself.
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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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Self esteem means having an accurate, true, concept of oneself.
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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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Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair.
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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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One cannot learn so well as by experiencing it oneself.
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I'm really much better at asking questions than answering them, since asking questions is like a constant deflection of oneself.
