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"Some are young people who don't know who they are, what they can be or even want to be. They are afraid, but they don't know of what. They are angry, but they don't know at whom. They are rejected and they don't know why. All they want is to be somebody."
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"One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error."
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"If you are willing to be a self-learner, you will develop yourself."
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"Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay."
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"Please, touch me, I pray."
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"I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do — to feel, discuss feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff…what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like."
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"My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism."
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"Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self."
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"Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men."
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"The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive."
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"In our society, the ideal self is bold, gregarious, and comfortable in the spotlight. We like to think that we value individuality, but mostly we admire the type of individual who's comfortable 'putting himself out there."
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"A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology."
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"Autoimmunity is probably the next frontier. The majority of cases of autoimmune disease result from a complex genetic problem that has environmental influences. It is a colossal task for the immune system to maintain tolerance to self and yet be ready to react to everything in the world around us."
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"Loneliness is the poverty of self solitude is the richness of self."
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"Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image."
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"All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self."
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"The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior."
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"Anger can be a useful emotion; it's built into our genetic code to help with self preservation. But it can also be destructive, even when it is justified."
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"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self."
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"The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also."
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