#himself

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself. ↗

— Henry Miller

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A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself. ↗

— Marianne Moore

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In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon. ↗

— John Milton

#bright #centre #clear #dark #day

It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

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Darwin himself, in his day, was unable to fight free of the theoretical errors of which he was guilty. It was the classics of Marxism that revealed those errors and pointed them out. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#darwin #day #errors #fight #free

A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself. ↗

— Andre Malraux

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