Quotes with self-horror

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  • Bryant H. McGill The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be self-sufficient.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • John Updike The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Thornton T. Munger The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.
    Thornton T. Munger
    American scientist and environmentalist
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  • J. G. Ballard The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regime.
    A User's Guide to the Millennium (1996)
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Aldous Huxley The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Brendan Gleeson The horror of a death without dignity has so much implications for the people who are left behind.
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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  • Philip Roth The horror of being caged has lost its thrill.
    My Life as a Writer (2014)
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Norman Mailer The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Marquis de Sade The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Norman O. Brown The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.
    Norman O. Brown
    American scholar, writer and philosopher (1913 - 2002)
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  • Caroline Knapp The kinds of roles dogs fill can be hard to come by in human relationships. We touch the dog or the pet at whim. There is a lack of self-consciousness and a fluidity to it that is absent from most human relationships. If someone acted that way to you, you'd feel claustrophobic pretty quickly. It's a boundary violation.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Cat Stevens The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Raymond Chandler The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The masses have no habit of self reliance or original action.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Reinhold Niebuhr The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
    Reinhold Niebuhr
    American theologist, historian (1892 - 1971)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • George S. Patton The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self-education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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