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“The only thing you really have to prove is yourself.”
“He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glasses.”
“It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.”
“See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds.”
“What will you do with your self? Many men and women are still in darkness, trying to figure out the meaning and purpose of life. But no matter what you try to do with your self whether you deny it,...”
“This was all of it, no doubt, the strange passing feeling that had come to me in the boat. Age. Vanity. The impossibility of accepting the new versions of oneself that life kept offering. The impos...”
“Great mysteries inhabit the threshold of my being.”
“We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls...”
“Why were there no words that spoke positively about being concerned about the self? Why was there only negative connotation in terms like "selfish", "self-interested", "self-centred", "self-obsesse...”
“... telling herself stories about herself in a singsong voice, creating her own mythology.”
“She filled herself entirely with the molten dark.”
“...the other's self, that enormous hulking thing each possessed, that a self of course is not inconsequential. p124”
“Is there any escaping the junkshop of the self?”
“You do it best, when you put your true color in it.”
“Why should I take my clothes off (...) when there are, already, so many other woman doing it for me?”
“Now, four years out of high school, I'm in an environment where people appreciate personality over appearance, and that makes me happy.”
“I'm not even who I am, yet.”
“I dont like being left for long struggling with my dangerous self.”
“Surviving isn't just about cutting out your heart and burning every feeling into ash. Sometimes it means taking whatever is thrown at you, beautiful or grotesque, poisonous or blissful, and carving...”
“Give yourself a break. When you are alone with your thoughts you should not be arguing.”
