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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
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Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
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If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.
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It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.
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My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
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''To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
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After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one's mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
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As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.
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As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
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Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
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Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.
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Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
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Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty - how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.
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Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
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Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
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