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• We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster
• I have to live with both my selves as best I may. — Brigitte Bardot
• In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote… — Dirk Benedict
• Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is… — Christian Nestell Bovee
• Our ideals are our better selves. — Amos Bronson Alcott
• Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that… — Nick Cave
• Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. — A. R. Ammons
• Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours… — Octavio Paz
• It happens, I do not know how, that most of the proud never really discover their true selves. They think they have… — John Climacus
• When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves. — Dogen
• We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are… — Langston Hughes
• Generally we waste our lives, distracted from our true selves, in endless activity. Meditation is the way to bring us back to… — Sogyal Rinpoche

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