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“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself I am large I contain multitudes.”
“Be thine own palace or the world's thy jail.”
“Do not make yourself so big. You are not so small.”
“I am as my Creator made me and since He is satisfied so am I.”
“I live in the crowds of jollity not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.”
“I refuse to try to explain everything because if you know too much about yourself you become impotent. Better not to know what it is that makes you tick.”
“Every man shall bear his own burden.”
“I seem to have an awful lot of people inside me.”
“There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.”
“I shall stay the way I am Because I do not give a damn.”
“I have been a selfish being all my life in practice though not in principle.”
“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”
“God knows I'm no the thing I should be Nor am I even the thing I could be.”
“An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too and that maketh him very wary.”
“In the main it is not by introspection but by reflecting on our living in common with others that we come to know ourselves. What is revealed? It is an original creation. Freely the subject makes h...”
“I'm a vague conjunctured personality more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.”
“A sick man that gets talking about himself a woman that gets talking about her baby and an author that begins reading out of his own book never know when to stop.”
“to be nobody but yourself- in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
“Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered it is something moulded.”
“My great mistake the fault for which I can't forgive myself is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.”
