#oneself

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I think it's important for one to take a certain distance from oneself. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

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The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#attempt #deceptive #devote #literature #most

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#aware #be happy #become #fright #happy

One should make morals judgements for oneself. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#make #morals #oneself #should

The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world. ↗

— Max Born

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What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find. ↗

— Andre Breton

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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind. ↗

— Robert Collier

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If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable. ↗

— Georges Courteline

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