#oneself

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

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As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people. ↗

— Basil Rathbone

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My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

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A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself. ↗

— Clifton Paul Fadiman

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A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself. ↗

— Clifton Fadiman

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On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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Nothing is harder than to accept oneself. ↗

— Max Frisch

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Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

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To forget oneself is to be happy. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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