Franz Kafka Quotes, Responsibility Quotes, Self Quotes

If all responsibility is imposed on you, then you may want to exploit the moment and want to be overwhelmed by the responsibility;yet if you try, you will notice that nothing was imposed on you, but that you are yourself this responsibility.

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In my very own self, I am part of my family.

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None are so desolate but something dear, Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd A thought, and claims the homage of a tear.

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What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.

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This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but in a little while I conquered my weakness and felt a pleasure I never knew before - that of doing as I willed.

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Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.

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Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write. On you go.

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Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act of mercy, and an act of self-defense.

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None are so desolate but something dear, Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd A thought, and claims the homage of a tear.

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You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation.

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What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.

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Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.

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The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

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I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one.

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The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.

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Can I live a life, daily life, without sense of self-concern?

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Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.

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For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery

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The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

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There is within me a friend who consoles me every time that troubles overwhelm me and misfortunes afflict me. The man who does not feel friendship towards himself is a public enemy, and he who finds no confidant within himself will die of despair. For life streams out of man's inner self and in no way from what surrounds him.

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