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It is easier to become entangled with an enemy than to disentangle oneself afterwards.

in love: a momentary instance of bein almost interested in someone else as in oneself!

One should be alert and know how to defend oneself in case something untoward happens.

Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

It is one thing to read about the world, but quite another to see and hear for oneself.

To lose faith in oneself is to cease to create; to cease to create is to cease to exist.

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.

Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.

One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.

Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.

It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.

In the brush doing what it is doing, it will stumble on what one could not do by oneself.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

How sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life.

Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

The quality of one's life is directly related to the quality of questions one asks oneself.

Faith in oneself unlocks those hidden powers that all of us have, but that so few of us use.

Guard against idols -- yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself.

Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself.

If one wants to measure oneself by the facile accruement of awards, then I've done very well.

There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.

It wasn't possible just to rid oneself, simply, of the norms through which one is constituted.

Perhaps Kafka laughed when he told stories [. . . ] because one isn't always equal to oneself.

Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that's the foundation for everything great.

To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion.

If one is reported as having set up camp overseas, it's as if one has made oneself unavailable.

Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

There is so much one would rather not believe until one has seen for oneself whether it is true.

Everyone should pursue whatever is original in oneself. That's the way for a long life in music.

One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.

It's essential to feel beautiful to oneself. Not in an egotistical way, but in a self-loving way.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

Disgust at having to talk about oneself is what distinguishes novelistic talent from lyric talent.

Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one's community.

It seems to be that way with most things. No one to do the really disagreeable jobs except oneself.

one forgives parents as naturally as one emancipates oneself from them - usually shortly afterward.

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

Indeed, President Trump seems to have a pretty good idea how to enrich oneself at taxpayer expense.

How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

In the sleeping state, instead, one is much more oneself, even if society never ceases to intervene.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Freedom is something that we got to achieve inside ourselves. Nobody can achieve it outside oneself.

If one completes the journey to one's own heart, one will find oneself in the heart of everyone else.

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