Quotes About Self

Or was their guilt written plainly, and for all the world to see, across their face? Was it their face, in fact, for which they were guilty?

the wholeness. There is also the sense of a self merged and at least temporarily erased—it is deathlike. . . . Perhaps we owe some of our most moving literature to men who didn't understand that they wanted to be women nursing babies. (Louise Erdrich)

Nowadays anyone with a crap laptop and an Internet connection can sound their barbaric yawp, whatever it may be.

I'd always wanted to be a princess saved by a magical knight. But now I wished I'd learned how to save myself FROM the knight - just a little bit. Why didn't anyone tell princesses that knights were sometimes more dangerous than dragons?

Memory weaves and traps us at the same time according to a scheme in which we do not participate: we should never speak of our memory, for it is anything but ours; it works on its own terms, it assists us while deceiving us or perhaps deceives up to assist us.

Amor 77 Y después de hacer todo lo que hacen, se levantan, se bañan, se entalcan, se perfuman, se peinan, se visten y así progresivamente van volviendo a ser lo que no son

Soy yo, soy él. Somos, pero soy yo, primeramente soy yo, defenderé ser yo hasta que no pueda más.

No era en la cabeza donde tenia el centro

Citar es citarse.

Consiguió dejar de pensar, consiguió por un instante besarla sin ser más que su propio beso.

Inventamos nuestro incendio, ardemos de dentro afuera, quizá eso sea la elección...

Están del otro lado, protegidos por el rompeolas del tiempo; sus cóleras y sus insatisfacciones pertenecen al mundo, a la política o al arte, nunca a ellos mismos, a su relación más profunda.

No soy ya el que conocisteis, oh mujeres. Histrio. Mimo. Noche de empusas, lamias, mala sombra, final del gran juego. Cómo cansa ser todo el tiempo uno mismo. Irremisiblemente. No las veré nunca más, está escrito.

I am I, I am he. We are, but I am I, first I am I, I will defend being I until I am unable to fight any longer. I am I, Atalia. Ego. Yo. A professional degree, an Argentine, a scarlet fingernail, pretty sometimes, big dark eyes, I. Atalia Donosi, I. Yo. Yo-yo, windlass and hawser. Funny.

Cómo cansa ser todo el tiempo uno mismo.

A usted le parece que en realidad somos dos, el de la izquierda y el de la derecha? ¿Uno útil y el otro inservible?

tengo suficiente inteligencia como para empezar a destruirla ventajosamente.

Now I am an axolotl.

Svaki nered se opravdava ako teži da iza?e iz sebe, možda se kroz ludilo može dospjeti do razuma koji ne?e biti onaj razum ?iji je nedostatak ludilo.

me custava muito menos pensar do que ser.

La noche queda para quien es

An Aryan [noble] mind has too much respect for other people, and its sense of its own dignity is too pronounced to allow it to impose its own ideas upon others, even when it knows that its ideas are correct.

Be, make yourself God, and in bringing about, save the world.

If I've changed, I've changed." "Have you really changed, or are you only making a show?" "Making a show?" "Yes." "...I don't really know.