"to weep for someone who is gone is desolation, but to weep for someone who has never really existed is to lose a part of oneself."
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"It is easier to rule others than to keep from being ruled oneself."
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"To know oneself is not necessarily to improve oneself"
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"To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already."
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"One can only face in others what one can face in oneself."
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"In the concert of nature it is hard to keep in tune with oneself if one is out of tune with everything else"
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"One could never judge a man without seeing him close, for oneself."
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"One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself."
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"One does not get to know that one exists until one rediscovers oneself in others."
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"It wasn't possible just to rid oneself, simply, of the norms through which one is constituted."
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"Disgust at having to talk about oneself is what distinguishes novelistic talent from lyric talent."
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