#oneself

There are things one must do for oneself. ↗

— Robert Mugabe

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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia. ↗

— Michael Novak

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One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. ↗

— Paul Valery

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Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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