Quotes About Self

It must be a manifestation of dying, he said to himself.

I am not free. I never was, but now I know it; and that makes it different.

How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.

Originality is being different from oneself, not others.

But you cannot change what you are, only what you do.

That's what you are. Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.

Dust is only a name for what happens when matter begins to understand itself.

You cannot change what you are, only what you do

Streite mit allem, was du willst, aber nicht mit deiner eigenen Natur

No. Some of them are just like this one, except for one detail. Imagine a world just like this, for example, but where every human being has an animal spirit accompanying them. A sort of visual spirit guide, animal totem, that sort of thing. Part of their own selves, but separate. For example.

Por él habría cambiado mi naturaleza. Me habría olvidado del titilar de las estrellas y de la música de la aurora, no habría vuelto a volar en mi vida (...)pero uno no puede cambiar lo que es, lo único que puede cambiar es lo que hace.

They gave her another image: she was enticing monsters out of the darkness of herself.

There are no reasons. She is obliged to be as she is. We all are. Reasons are in books.

Doctor doctor, what do you say, lets put the id back in yid

I was a biography in constant motion, memory to the marrow of my bones.

In school we chanted, along with our teacher, I am the Captain of my fate, I am the Master of my soul, and meanwhile, within my own body, an anarchic insurrection had been launched by one of my privates- which I was helpless to put down!

Noi siamo, dopotutto, la somma delle nostre esperienze, e l'esperienza comprende non soltanto ciò che facciamo concretamente, ma anche ciò che privatamente immaginiamo.

Because you happen to be a writer doesn't mean you have to deny yourself the ordinary human pleasure of being praised and applauded.

It's no picnic up there in the egosphere.

All I can tell you with certainty is that I, for one, have no self, and that I am unwilling or unable to perpetrate upon myself the joke of a self.... What I have instead is a variety of impersonations I can do, and not only of myself — a troupe of players that I have internalised, a permanent company of actors that I can call upon when a self is required.... I am a theater and nothing more than a theater.

To be alive, to him, is to be made of memory—to him if a man's not made of memory, he's made of nothing.

One's story isn't a skin to be shed— it's inescapable, one's body and blood. You go on pumping it out till you die, the story veined with the themes of your life, the ever-recurring story that's at once your invention and the invention of you.

devi fare solo questo, presentare una buona e coerente versione di te stesso, e nessuno verrà mai a farti domande.

If only I could have nourished myself upon the depths of his vulgarity, instead of that too becoming a source of shame. Shame and shame and shame and shame—every place I turn something else to be ashamed of.