"I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention."
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"All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously."
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"Without being and remaining oneself, there is no love."
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"One must never be either content with, or impatient with, oneself."
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"Unkindness almost always stands for the displeasure that one has in oneself."
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"All things are already complete in oneself."
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"To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable."
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"I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself."
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"One has to do sadhana for the total manifestation of the Divine in oneself."
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"...in some situations winning consist[s] of disentangling oneself."
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"In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to absorb and supersede such as are local or delegated."
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"There is nothing more difficult to find than oneself."
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"One never perishes through anybody but oneself."
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"It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires."
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"To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death."
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"The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others."
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"One is oneself a fine consequence."
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"If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others."
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"In the sleeping state, instead, one is much more oneself, even if society never ceases to intervene."
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"One can forget everything, everything, only not oneself, one's own being."
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