Self Quotes
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Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception.
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Gender assignment is a "construction" and yet many genderqueer and trans people refuse those assignments in part or in full. That refusal opens the way for a more radical form of self-determination, one that happens in solidarity with others who are undergoing a similar struggle.
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I shall gather myself into my self again, I shall take my scattered selves and make them one.
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I think somebody who is more self-reflective should ask why they personally aren't going on that path. If amateurism is so great, why didn't you stay one? You have to look at the larger economy, a backdrop of unemployment; it's shitty out there.
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And as to carrying religion into everything, how can one help it if one's religion is a vital part of one's self, not a cloak put on to go to church in and hang up out of the way against next Sunday?
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Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the lives of my characters, as well, albeit on a much different level.
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I see the meaning of apocalypse as an unveiling of our deeper self.
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That the object of writing is to write to yourself, to let your self know what you have been trying to avoid.
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Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that? What's the trick?
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When all the Self was conquered and dead, when all passions and desires were silent, then the last must awaken, the innermost of Being that is no longer Self - the great secret!
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Trust in your own self more than in all else.
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There are four degrees of love: 1) Love of self for self's sake. 2) Love of God for self's sake. 3) Love of God for God's own sake. 4) Love of self for God's sake.
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I sing the body that is electric! I celebrate the Self yet to be unveiled!
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Choose a self and stand by it.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
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Through adversity we find our better self.
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There is always one thing to be grateful for - that one is one's self and not somebody else.
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The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.
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We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.
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What can not be spoken to the mother cannot be told to the self.
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There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.
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No self is of itself alone.
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When we love God because we feel we should love Him, instead of genuinely loving out of our true selves, we have forgotten who God really is.
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Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.
