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• Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put… — Kevyn Aucoin
• The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks… — Marcus Aurelius
• It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be… — David Bailey
• The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others. — James A. Baldwin
• The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery,… — James A. Baldwin
• In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does… — Saint Basil
• Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. — Charles Baudelaire
• It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. — Charles Baudelaire
• To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing. — Charles Baudelaire
• To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. — Simone de Beauvoir
• An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. — Konrad Adenauer
• Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting… — Pope Benedict XVI

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