#selves

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#between #bit #conformity #consider #exquisite

Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying. ↗

— David Antin

#before #between #children #distinction #frequently

Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth. ↗

— Mary Antin

#growth #longer #mothers #our #ourselves

Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about. ↗

— R. W. Apple, Jr.

#best #even #journalists #more #our

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#circular #compass #courses #go #heights

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#make #our #ourselves #out #themselves

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. ↗

— Jane Austen

#more #people #them #themselves #who

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread. ↗

— Paul Auster

#day #follow #lose #narrative #next

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#little #maintain #only #powerful #states

Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things. ↗

— Zane Grey

#higher #may #men #rise #selves