Quotes About Self

When people write in favor or against anybody, that hardly helps or hurts them...man can be done or undone by his own writing, not by what other people say of him.

Lo que decimos pocas veces se parece a nosotros.

Gerçekte, uykudan uyan?p da kendi kendisiyle kar??laÅŸmayan insan yoktur.

I offer her that kernel of myself that I have saved, somehow - the central heart that deals not in words, traffics not with dreams and is untouched by time, by joy, by adversities.

was wir sind, ist unsere eigene Erinnerung, wir sind jenes trügerische Museum veränderlicher Formen, jener Haufen Spiegelscherben

Llegué a abominar de mi cuerpo, llegué a sentir que dos ojos, dos manos, dos pulmones, son tan monstruosos como dos caras.

Un hombre se confunde, gradualmente, con la firma de su destino; un hombre es, a la larga, sus circunstancias.

se odió; odió su identidad, sus necesidades corporales, su humillación.

Casi no soy, pero mis versos ritman la vida y su esplendor. Yo fui Walt Whitman.

Instinctively, he had already trained himself in the habit of pretending that he was someone, so it would not be discovered that he was no one.

Berkeley affirmed the existence of personal identity, "I my self am not my ideas, but somewhat else, a thinking active principle that perceives . . ." (Dialogues, 3); Hume, the skeptic, refutes this identity and makes of every man "a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity" (op. cit., I, 4, 6).

Tutti assomigliamo all'immagine che gli altri hanno di noi.

Os espelhos e a paternidade são abomináveis porque o multiplicam e o divulgam (o universo).

Un hombre se confunde, gradualmente, con la forma de su destino; un hombre es, a la larga, sus circunstancias.

Omul ajunge s? se confunde, treptat, cu forma destinului s?u; cu vremea, el se suprapune circumstan?elor vie?ii sale.

Nombres tenían pero podían prescindir de apellidos.

There is no human being on earth capable of declaring with certitude who he is.

I don't think you should try to be loyal to your century or your opinions, because you are being loyal to them all the time. You have a certain voice, a certain kind of face, a certain way of writing, and you can't run away from them even if you want to. So why bother to be modern or contemporary, since you can't be anything else?

When I wake up, I wake up to something worse. It's the astonishment of being myself.

I don't want to continue being Jorge Luis Borges; I want to be someone else. I hope that my death will be total; I hope to die in body and soul.

I shall be the other I am without knowing it.

Todos nos parecemos a la imagen que tienen de nosotros.

He realized that one destiny is no better than the next and that every man must accept the destiny he bears inside himself.

The student of Torah is like the amnesia victim who tries to reconstruct from fragments the beautiful world he once experienced. By learning Torah, man returns to his own self.