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I always have a very strong sense of shaming oneself, and you can do that a lot in the public eye, so it's best avoided at all costs I think. Chris Lowe

Best You Strong Sense Think Eye Strong Sense Oneself Costs Always Lot Very Public Public Eye Avoided

It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far. Cornelia Otis Skinner

It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse. David Bailey

The basic ability to not wipe oneself out, to endure, to use your technological interaction with the world in such a way that has the possibility of the likelihood of lasting and not being temporary - that seems like a pretty good definition of intelligence. David Grinspoon

Good Intelligence World Lasting Way Definition Possibility Out Ability Pretty Temporary Pretty Good Oneself Seems Wipe Like Likelihood Being Interaction Endure Use Your Such A Way Basic Technological

Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make. Debra Winger

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. Doris Lessing

Best Oneself Only Sin Real Anything Persuade Second

One has to move from one's comfort zone to challenge oneself. Dulquer Salmaan

Challenge Oneself Comfort Comfort Zone Move Zone

If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique. Eddie Redmayne

Gender Finds Oneself Where Unique Spectrum

Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it. Eduardo Chillida

Way Must Inside Oneself Nobody Discovered Person Teach Express Found

What comes from oneself, is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link. Eduardo Chillida

Me Oneself Only No-One Link Nearly

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique. Elizabeth Bowen

People Meeting Unlike Oneself Only Outlook Idea Does Unique

To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself. Emil Cioran

Hope Lie Live Believe Oneself

To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness. Emile Durkheim

State Definition Unattainable Oneself Pursue Condemn Perpetual Goal Which Unhappiness

Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself. Eric Hoffer

Mother Giving Reckless Oneself Having Craving

A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law. Evan Davis

Words Law Example Sit Bench Medium High Status About Oneself Something Parliament Academia For Example Self-Expression Provide Just Place Themselves Used Describe Chair Function Chairs Found Professions Why Seat

Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary. Francoise Sagan

Life Time Writing Three Life Is A Jazz Progression Characters Tells Arbitrary Finding Oneself Feels Like Sort Question Rhythm Rhythmic Rhythms Much Certain Less Compare

On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself. Georg Simmel

Life Time Needs Personality Stream Made Sides Carry Easy Oneself Hand Offered Person Infinitely Interests Uses Swim Hardly Consciousness

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them. Georges Bataille

God Harmony Unless Worst Willed Evils Tortured Oneself Equivalent Existence Being Place Them Unimaginable Means Painful Including Position

In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal. Gertrude Stein

Fragrance France Must Oneself Adapt

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. Graham Greene

Life Trust Impossible Worst Oneself Through Without Go Imprisoned Cell

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