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"He irritably suspected himself of a tendency to make enemies unnecessarily."

"I couldn't do ventriloquism. I don't have any interest in splitting myself in two, the way a ventriloquist does — half-himself, half the dummy on his knee."

"And what does infinity mean to you? Are you not infinity and yourself?"

"To be understood is to prostitute yourself."

"Self-Descriptive page"

"Harry Dresden: A little humiliation and ego deflation, now and then, is good for apprentices. Mine sighed miserably."

"Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference."

"I have never seen anything easier than abstaining. Whatever yourself devises, abandon it."

"Where I can see myself is doing as much as I can in the position that I've got."

"Golikov was a perfect choice. While he himself likely saw Stalin as a guardian angel, Stalin surely saw in him an individual on whom he could rely completely."

"You can, after all, produce an orgasm yourself if that's what you want, so we must go to bed for something more."

"It would be an unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried."

"Gassoon, for all his lore, subscribed to a common fallacy: he assumed that all those whom he encountered appraised him in the same terms as he did himself."

"I jammed my hand in my jacket pocket, bracing myself for the next hit, and feel something. Something grainy and small, sticking to the tips of my fingers: the sand from Commons Park."

"I am, and always have been, a pretty strong individualist."

"If I was in the mainstream, I'd began to ask myself what I'm doing wrong."

"How can the spirit of the Enlightenment and the Reformation be extended now to all men?"

"Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self."

"Regard yourself all the more as a sinner because you cannot feel yourself to be what you are."

"If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you."