"The self-prepared dinner is a great time killer for lonely people and as much time should be spent on it as possible."
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"Mirabelle is not affected by a man’s failures to approach her, as her own self-depreciating attitude never allows the idea that he would in the first place."
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"My playing style is very eccentric and mostly self taught."
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"I didn't have the self-promotion instinct, and I just didn't care about it. I sort of had a "beat" attitude."
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"How can there be self-help groups?"
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"Why else is politics the perfect refuge for every liar, cheat, and self-serving toad that was ever born? All you need is a good set of teeth and the ability to smile convincingly with them. --Cressida"
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"Whoever you are, bear in mind that appearance is not reality. Some people act like extroverts, but the effort costs them energy, authenticity, and even physical health. Others seem aloof or self-contained, but their inner landscapes are rich and full of drama. So the next time you see a person with a composed face and a soft voice, remember that inside her mind she might be solving an equation, composing a sonnet, designing a hat. She might, that is, be deploying the powers of quiet."
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"Every American was to become a performing self."
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"Should we become so proficient at self-presentation that we can dissemble without anyone suspecting?"
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"the process of building a self and its works is always too slow. One is always in arrears to oneself."
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"...to be a poet, requires a mythology of the self. The self described is the poet self, to which the daily self (and others) are often ruthlessly sacrificed. The poet self is the real self, the other one is the carrier; and when the poet self dies, the person dies."
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"My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am."
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"Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves from it."
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"Result of self-consciousness: audience and actor are the same. I live my life as a spectacle for myself, for my own edification. I live my life but I don't live in it. The hoarding instinct in human relations."
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"If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories."
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"As industrialization provided social uses for the operations of the photographer, so the reaction against these uses reinforced the self-consciousness of photography-as-art."
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"Indeed, the very first acknowledgment (as far as I am aware) of the attraction of mutilated bodies occurs in a founding description of mental conflict. It is a passage in The Republic, Book IV, where Plato’s Socrates describes how our reason may be overwhelmed by an unworthy desire, which drives the self to become angry with a part of its nature."
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"Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility . . . . Artists have had to become self-conscious aestheticians: continually challenging their means, their materials and methods."
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"The question of the social uses of photography opens out into the very largest issues of the self, of the relationship to community, to reality."
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"Work done for the Self gives no bondage. Neither desire pleasure nor fear pain from work. It is the mind and body that work, not I. Tell yourself this unceasingly and realise it. Try not to know that you work."
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