"It seems a little self-involved to be like, 'Oh, he's hitting on me.' Maybe he's just trying to start up an innocent conversation."
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"Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy"
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"In commitment, we dash the hopes of a thousand potential selves."
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"I practice self-control and staying active. Running round the kitchen keeps me moving."
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"I've got at least one tiny corner of the universe I can make just the way I want it."
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"What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!"
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"The self is too small an object for perpetual enthusiasm."
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"Religion is the call to confront reality; to master the self."
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"For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about."
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"Love and Loyalty If ever men and women are their simplest, sincerest selves, it is when suffering softens the one, and sympathy strengthens the other."
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"Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial."
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"Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable."
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"It seems to me that everyone on this planet whom I know or have worked with is suffering from self-hatred and guilt to one degree or another. The more self-hatred and guilt we have, the less our lives work. The less self-hatred and guilt we have, the better our lives work, on all levels."
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"Above all, the listener should be able to understand the poem or the song, not be forced to unravel a complicated, self-indulgent puzzle. Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few."
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"Nina knew the power of black and white images. Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away."
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"In the beginning was the myth. God, in his search for self-expression, invested the souls of Hindus, Greeks, and Germans with poetic shapes and continues to invest each child's soul with poetry every day."
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"What is the holding of breath? It is a flight from the Self, it is a temporary escape from the torment of Self. It is a temporary palliative against the pain and folly of life."
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