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To know one’s own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at one’s own face with one’s own eyes, for example. One… — Haruki Murakami
The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and aggressively to the… — Herbert Marcuse
The inflections of community are important because they get at the very meanings of marriage. Marriage is a gift God gives the church. He does… — Lauren F. Winner
That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst. — Jean-Paul Sartre
What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one’s own, when self-pretense is no longer possible? — Richard Matheson
Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world. — George Washington
I should love to satisfy all, if I possibly can; but in trying to satisfy all, I may be able to satisfy none. I have,… — Mahatma Gandhi
It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body... On the battlefield,… — George Orwell
the calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one’s own; to induce in… — George Steiner
Nothing fires the warrior’s heart more with courage than to find himself and his comrades at the point of annihilation, at the brink of being… — Steven Pressfield
The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes. — George Orwell
To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of… — Oscar Wilde
A man must choose his own way of life, and…it is only by following out one’s own bent that there can be the really harmonious… — Winston Churchill
To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own. — Abraham Lincoln
Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then… — Audre Lorde
One doesn’t become a witch to run around being helpful either…. It’s to escape all that – to have a life of one’s own, not… — Sylvia Townsend Warner
Taking the decision-making process away from people disempowers them. It also makes them much less likely to buy into the decision, however right it may… — Surya Das
We danced our youth in a dreamed of city, Venice, paradise, proud and pretty, We lived for love and lust and beauty, Pleasure then our… — Veronica Franco
Sometimes, as much as writing saves one’s own life, you cannot imagine how it will save another’s. This is another reason why it is important… — Lilith Saintcrow
..Acts of appropriation are part of the process by which we make ourselves. Appropriating - taking something for one’s own use - need not be… — Bell Hooks
No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence… — Barry Lopez
Both of you’ll just have to believe me. Emma’s one of those women who was born with… The thing is, the minute a heterosexual man… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of… — Virginia Woolf
Be hated. One does not have to be evil to be hated. In fact, it’s often the case that one is hated precisely because one… — Adrian Tan
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self. — Franz Kafka

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