identity

"The place where even the slightest trace of the 'I' does not exist, alone is Self."

"I was brought up to be a good boy and proud of myself so I suppress all the things about me that are bad."

"Russia is a name usurped by the Muscovites. They are not Slavs; they do not belong to the Indo-Germanic race at all, they are des intrus , who must be chased back across the Dnieper, etc."

"Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself."

"Yet the moonlight is the sunlight and the sun himself will pass."

"A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man.... It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded a…"

"A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself."

"When you have to choose among methods, your locus of attention is drawn from the task and temporarily becomes the decision itself."

"For nothing can be greater than seduction itself, not even the order that destroys it."

"Well," said Dr Jochum, "you are like all reformers. You like to reform the world because it is easier than trying to reform yourself."

"The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special."

"He that cheats another is a knave; but he that cheats himself is a fool."

"If you are going to sell yourself, you should at least get a good price."

"He knew that ahead lay many perils—threats to his bodily welfare. And recently Jarles had come to have a great respect for that bag of flesh and bones which contained his ego."

"It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable."

"Beggars are a sure indicator that there are no Christians, or else very few and dispirited ones, in any town in which beggars are seen."

"They understood things of the spirit in Japan. They disemboweled themselves when anything went wrong."

"Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse and many others, India belongs only to me."

"I feel like I carry myself in a more manly way. I don’t carry myself as a boy."

"Be sure you have someone up your sleeve who will save you when you find yourself in deep s—."