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A.L. Kitselman
The words I am are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.
Agnes Repplier
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.
Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.
Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself.
Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Some things become so completely our own that we forget them.
Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free.
Carl G. Jung
A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found.
Charles Caleb Colton
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
Confucius
And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
D.H. Lawrence, Pornography and Obscenity
Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.
Eckhart
The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.
Emily Saliers, Center Stage, Indigo Girls, 1989
Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown.
Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.
Ethel Barrymore
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh, at yourself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.
H.F. Hedge
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.
Henry Van Dyke, The Prison and the Angel
Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.
I say me, knowing all the while it's not me.
I say me, knowing all the while it's not me.
J.C.F. von Schiller
I am my own heaven and hell!
 
 
 
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