"Philosophy is a bad master for poetry; religion worse; and politics self-serving will never serve the Muse."
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"The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen."
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"Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption."
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"Dermot Reeve was so self-obsessed that even on the local nudist beach he only admired himself"
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"I don't want to point out her flaws, but if I see her going on a self-destructive path, isn't it up to me as her friend to stop her?"
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"I never believed in love at first sight, until I met Derek. It's all-consuming and delicious and wonderful and exciting. At the same time, it makes me nervous and self-conscious and emotional. Love exists. I know it does, because I'm madly, deeply, hopelessly in love."
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"Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else - and so unique, that it seems natural that one should also be unique for someone else."
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"Consciousness," according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way a garden slug secretes slime. It had no special ontological status. The "self" was a genetically modulated and biologically useful illusion."
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"I would confront the thieves, I thought, and the self-evident justice of my case would cause them to crumble before me. I don't know why I expected such extravagant results from the application of mere justice. That kind of calculation is seldom borne out by worldly events."
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"I still say the only education worth anything is self-education."
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"Yes, and even for the past...that it will turn out to have been all right for what it was. Something I can accept. Mistakes made by the self I had to be or was not able to be."
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"Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition."
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"Life works on strange laws of nature (Karma). One never knows when a friend turns enemy & vice-versa. Rely on your Self; self-reliance"
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"Do not make an effort to impress others. When you come from the self, your expression is perfect and your impression lasts for ages."
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"The entire universe is just an expression, projection, of the Being, of the Self. Within this small body, you are able to experience the infinite space."
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"Love the world. Otherwise, you will be forced to carry the heaviest load: your own bitter self."
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"Each human being can at once be a fighter and forgiver. When self-doubt tortures him, he most play the role of a fighter. And when his own ignorance humiliates him, he must play the role of a forgiver."
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"What is Yoga? Yoga is self-conquest. Self-conquest is God-Realization. He who practices Yoga does two things with one stroke: he simplifies his whole life and he gets a freee access to the Divine."
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"My heart needs only one thing. It needs to be guided Along the age-old path Of life-blossoming self-awareness."
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"Not one But twenty-four self-giving-hours Every day I have For my use."
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