"Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark; I am the first to do so by my entire being, as Michel de Montaigne."
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"To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity."
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"I find myself fascinating."
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"All novels . . . are concerned with the enigma of the self. As soon as you create an imaginary being, a character, you are automatically confronted by the question: what is the self? How can it be grasped?"
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"if i dont want to be known, i cannot be known.the best actor can divide role from self.the best liar can divide truth from falsity."
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"Self-discipline leads to higher spiritual states only if practiced with under- standing. The clearer the goal, the greater the result."
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"We are all mortals, and each is for himself."
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"Holiness consists in doing God’s will joyfully. Faithfulness makes saints. The spiritual life is a union with Jesus: the divine and the human giving themselves to each other. The only thing Jesus asks of us is to give ourselves to him, in total poverty and total self-forgetfulness."
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"If we really want to love, if we really want to live, we must love until it hurts . . . No Rotarian whose motto is Service Above Self, I think, should call himself a Rotarian if he does not make time to serve . . . If we love, we begin to serve"
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"Sam’s probably out there somewhere being his usual heroic self,” Caine said. “I can’t let that boy save the world all alone. I’d never live it down."
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"I'm very self-conscious as an actor, with performances and things, and I don't like watching my own stuff."
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"Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among the Holy Saints."
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"I think over time you learn to know a bit more about yourself - you develop a certain amount of self-insight and self-awareness, and you know what you can absorb, and what you cannot; what gets to you and what doesn't."
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"Over time you learn to know a bit more about yourself - you develop a certain amount of self-insight and self-awareness, and you know what you can absorb, and what you cannot; what gets to you and what doesn't. And I observe a lot. I see a lot around me. And over time you also get to understand the nature of man and the environments you are dealing with, and you can't always allow emotions and temper to flare up because you're displeased with something, or you want to change it."
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"When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death."
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"The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them."
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"Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage."
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"People don't realize that there's no label and everything is self-financed and we make do and do our own thing. I was just happy to do my first video, I thought it was a fun experience."
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"No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in the self-demonstrability of truth."
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"People who relax by watching TV instead of going out to engage with the world tend to be far less energetic. the benefits of exercise in protecting against depression and mental ill-health are huge. Those around you can also affect your energy levels. Self-talk also works wonders on energy levels."
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