Effacement Quotes by Michel Houellebecq

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• Ask yourself this: How much deprivation, how much self-effacement must you suffer through before you act on your desire for meaning and… — Jillian Michaels
• There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice. — Edward Abbey
• To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement. — Dag Hammarskjold
• What is life, but the gentle effacement of a tree shedding its leaves? — Christian Harrison
• Our broken society is not born out of the triumph of the individual, but out of his effacement. He vanishes, she vanishes,… — Jeanette Winterson
• I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It… — Mahatma Gandhi
• This progressive effacement of human relationships is not without certain problems for the novel. How, in point of fact, would one handle… — Michel Houellebecq
• If you strip away self-effacement, charm and the spirit of mischief-qualities that make determination and ambition tolerable- you're left with a right… — Russell Brand
• Why would a person prefer the accusations of guilt, unworthiness, ineptitude - even dishonor and betrayal- to real possibility? This may not… — Ernest Becker
• Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons.… — Dag Hammarskjold

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