I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis.
Mary MacLaneTags: self
We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us
André GideTags: self personality
The square root of I is I.
Vladimir NabokovTags: philosophy self ego
Don't hate the media; become the media.
Jello BiafraTags: philosophy self media punk new diy distribution done experimental aesthetic distribute promotion
It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.
Joseph ConradTags: knowledge self understanding denial
We are not of what we feel or believe to do, we are of what we do or fail to do.
Judith McNaughtTags: self self-improvement nature-of-man
When I loved myself enough, I would sometimes wake in the night to music playing within me.
Kim McMillenTags: self
But even them, my pains, I understand ill. That must come from my not being all pain and nothing else. There's the rub. Then they recede, or I, till they fill me with amaze and wonder, seen from a better planet. Not often, but I ask no more. Catch-cony life! To be nothing but pain, how that would simplify matters! Omnidolent! Impious dream.
Samuel BeckettCertainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing.
Michel de MontaigneTags: self
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
Gabriel García MárquezTags: life identity self birth
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