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Quotes About Self

Tüm a??klar gibi Baudlino da kibirli olmuÅŸtu.
~ Umberto Eco
La nostra identità non è fatta solo delle cose che ricordiamo, ma anche di ciò che riusciamo a dimenticare.
~ Umberto Eco
wo Es war, soll Ich werden.
~ Umberto Eco
A szabadság tehát szenvedély, a szabadság akarása viszont cselekvés, és ez a különbség közöttem és a kÅ' között. Én akarhatok.
~ Umberto Eco
Åžimdi anl?yorum ki, istemin buyruÄŸunun kendini göstermesi gereken düÅŸünsen açl?kla insan tutkular?n?n öznesi olan duygusal açl?k aras?ndaki çeliÅŸkiden ötürü ac? çekiyormuÅŸum.
~ Umberto Eco
Escribía como simple juego mecánico, para reflexionar en solitario sobre sus propios errores, se engañaba pensando que no estaba «creando» porque la creación, aun cuando es fuente de error, siempre se produce por amor a alguien distinto de nosotros.
~ Umberto Eco
Telle est la force du vrai qui, comme le bien, se diffuse de soi-même.
~ Umberto Eco
Sacro egoismo was the phrase; you made yourself holy by the force with which you asserted your own Godhead.
~ Upton Sinclair
We have nothing. We solace ourselves with the great men of our tribe, the Gandhi and the Nehru, and we castrate ourselves. 'Here, take my manhood and invest it for me. Take my manhood and be a greater man yourself, for my sake!
~ V.S. Naipaul
But the people I found, the people I was attracted to were not unlike myself. They were trying to find order in their world, looking for the centre..
~ V.S. Naipaul
As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.
~ Vaclav Havel
The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him.
~ Vaclav Havel
Tony took a deep breath and deliberately relaxed his body. He used breathing techniques to put himself into a light state of trance. He instructed his conscious mind to let go, to allow his higher self to access directly all he knew about Handy Andy and to answer for him. When he spoke, even his voice was different. The timbre was rougher, the tones deeper. 'I blended in. I took care. I watched and I learned.
~ Val McDermid
The Grinbergs drew upon Melanie Klein's psychoanalytic theories40 and showed how guilt over loss of parts of the self—that is, the immigrant or the refugee's previous identity and his or her investment in the land and people left behind—may complicate the newcomer's mourning process
~ Vam?k D. Volkan
projective identification.194 From childhood on, human beings utilize certain mental mechanisms to get rid of unpleasant aspects of themselves and assign them to others. Members of one group in conflict may attempt to define their identity through externalizing and projecting unwanted aspects onto the enemy.
~ Vam?k D. Volkan
The actual memories of the trauma belong to adults; children who become reservoirs have no experience with the trauma. Actual memories belonging to one person cannot be transmitted to another person, but an adult can deposit traumatized images into a child's self.
~ Vam?k D. Volkan
La poesía soy yo.
~ Vicente Huidobro
Sin miedo al enigma de ti mismo Acaso encuentres una luz sin noche Perdida en las grietas de los precipicios»
~ Vicente Huidobro
by making himself a priest made himself a demon.
~ Victor Hugo
From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty
~ Victor Hugo
I was confided to your loyalty and accepted by your treason; you offer my death to those to whom you had promised my life. Do you know who it is you are destroying here? It is yourself.
~ Victor Hugo
It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.
~ Victor Hugo
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself or more correctly being loved in spite of yourself.
~ Victor Hugo
That evening, before he went to bed, he said again: Let us never fear robbers nor murderers. Those are dangers from without, petty dangers. Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. What matters it what threatens our head or our purse! Let us think only of that which threatens our soul.
~ Victor Hugo