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"I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed, Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God."
"Am I self-righteous? Why not? It's not like I can count on you to be righteous for me."
"Love is self deception. I am a living creature. Hate is only self love. I am a double feature."
"I have been listening to the Stooges' self-titled first album for well over half my life, and it remains one of the most exciting and essential records I have ever had the good fortune to come into contact with."
"Break from self rejection, try some introspection."
"Sometimes you can get so far in yourself that you don't know who you are."
"Maybe some things are better left broken and scattered Veiled in darkness, secret bitterness and self-doubt I should have known better Than to start something that I couldn't finish That I couldn't care about That I couldn't remember starting in the first place I don't want to know you You went years without me You might as well keep going."
"I am talking about ultimate deceit. I am talking about unparalleled treachery. Bottomless lies. Depths that are seen that are previously unimaginable. Darkness and shattering despair that could break bones. Paranoia and horror that could stop the heart cold. All inflicted on one's self by one's self. The soul turns schizophrenic and goes hopelessly insane."
"I'm just shallow and self-interested, and don't get out much because I'm afraid of real commitments."
"There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication."
"Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction."
"My humanity is a constant self-overcoming."
"How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again and again the luxury of my sincerity."
"To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the wretchedness of the vanquished."
"The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his conscience, which calls to him: "Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself."
"Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator."
"Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves"
"His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in."
"For our self respect depends upon our ability to make requital, for good or for evil."
"When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality. For the latter is absolutely not self-evident: one must make this point clear again and again, in spite of English shallowpates."
