#oneself

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

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In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live. ↗

— Ethel Percy Andrus

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One should make morals judgements for oneself. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#make #morals #oneself #should

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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A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

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