Quotes About Self

I have always been tormented by the image of multiplicity of selves. Some days I call it richness, and other days I see it as a disease, a proliferation as dangerous as cancer. My first concept about people around me was that all of them were coordinated into a whole, whereas I was made of multitude of selves, of fragments.

I have forgotten my mask and my face was in it. Man

When I saw you, Sabina, I chose my body.

Music spilling out of from the eyes in place of tears, music spilling from the throat in place of words, music falling from his fingertips in place of caresses, music exchanged between them instead of love, yearning of five lines, the five lines of their thoughts , their reveries, their emotions, their unknown self, their giant self, their shadow.

If only we could all escape from this house of incest, where we only love ourselves in the other, if only I could save you all from yourselves, said the modern Christ.

The potion drunk by lovers is prepared by no one but themselves. The potion is the sum of one's whole existence. Every word spoken in the past accumulated forms and colors in the self. What flows through the veins besides blood is the distillation of every act committed, the sediment of all the visions, wishes, dreams, and experiences. All the past emotions converge to tint the skin and flavor the lips, to regulate the pulse and produce crystals in the eyes.

No vemos las cosas como son, las vemos como somos

the legends of friendship and love between man and man, woman and woman, or man and woman, lies this hideous narcissistic image of the single, all-sufficient self, the primitive generative force which fecundates itself, which in its irrepressible ebullience threw off a planetary system that forms the whole corpus of mythological worship and love. "In the beginning was the word and the word became flesh.

We love shadows of our hidden selves in others.

Both of us had one inviolate self we never gave. It was our dreaming self. Now we have invaded this world in each other. She is too rich to be fully known in a few days. She says I am too rich for her. […] Her idealism is so demanding. It awes me. With her I feel timelessness.

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.

Worlds self-made and self-nourished are so full of ghosts and monsters.

En voyage, j'absorbe tout et l'ajoute à moi-même.

He was never dressed, but costumed to suit some mood of a new self. He was in disguise.

But perhaps Rank is right and humility is an atonement for your great inner pride and knowingness about your self!

It is to nature I want to return, it is my nature I want to accept.

It will be a she, too. I am tired of that "I," the weak I, the over-audacious I, the aggressive I, the timid I, the I of the Chinese language signs. I swallowing all my letters. Swallowing some of the notes.

Al final de la velada, yo era como un hombre, estaba profundamente enamorada de su rostro y de su cuerpo, que prometía tanto, y odiaba el ser que los demás habían creado en ella. Los demás sienten gracias a ella; y gracias a ella, componen poemas; gracias a ella, odian; y otros, como Henry, la aman aunque les pese.

O inimigo de um amor nunca vem de fora, não é homem ou mulher, é o que falta em nós mesmos.

Kay was showing this, exaggerating her whims- loving herself through Leila, really.

We carefully observe and watch the happenings of the entire world without realizing they are projections of our inner selves.

There was in me confusion between love and devotion. I thought all my acts were acts of love, yielding up of the self, the personal. But I did feel hurt that they were all willing to immolate me, and felt unloved according to my own definition of love: sacrifice.

The precondition, then, of the creative personality is not only acceptance, but its actual glorification of itself.

I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.