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Self Quotes by Milan Kundera
- The difference between the university graduate and the autodidact lies not so much in the extent of knowledge as in the extent of vitality and…
- Bacon's portraits are an interrogation on the limits of the self. Up to what degree of distortion does an individual still remain himself? To what…
- I find myself fascinating.
- Remembering our past, carrying it around with us always, may be the necessary requirement for maintaining, as they say, the wholeness of the self. To…
- All novels . . . are concerned with the enigma of the self. As soon as you create an imaginary being, a character, you are…
- Tell me, where in life is there a value that would make us consider suicide uncalled for on principle! Love? Or friendship? I guarantee that…
- But was it love? The feeling of wanting to die beside her was clearly exaggerated: he had seen her only once before in his life!…
- Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one’s painful self through the world. But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming a fountain, a…
- The basis of the self is not thought but suffering, which is the most fundamental of all feelings. While it suffers, not even a cat…
- I am not worthy of my suffering. A great sentence. It suggests not only that suffering is the basis of the self, its sole indubitable…
- The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what…
- To ensure that the self doesn't shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and…
More Self Quotes
- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Life never was intended to be easy. Rather, it is a period of proving and growth. It is interwoven with difficulties, challenges,… — Richard G. Scott
- Forgive yourself and get over 'self hatred.' In life, everybody screws up I mean everybody. Some people blame themselves for stuff, when… — Pacifiersucker
- Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the… — Samuel Johnson
- Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense. — Arnold Bennett
- If there is any aim to achieve by all of us as a human being, it is to be so strong that… — Senoraroy