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My Own Quotes (page 79)

Yet even if I manage that, one single slip, and a slip cannot be avoided, will stop the whole process, easy and painful alike, and I will have to shrink back into my own circle again. Franz Kafka
Anais Nin quote: "I'm sick of my own romanticism!"
I'm sick of my own romanticism! Anais Nin
A life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly opaque, an object I make with my own hands, an object imposed on me, an object for which the world provides the raw material and then steals it from me again, pulverized by events, scattered, broken, scored yet retaining its unity; how heavy it is and how inconsistent: this contradiction breeds many misunderstandings. Simone de Beauvoir
The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be. . .It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own. C. S. Lewis
And when I look at a history book and think of the imaginative effort it has taken to squeeze this oozing world between two boards and typeset, I am astonished. Perhaps the event has an unassailable truth. God saw it. God knows. But I am not God. And so when someone tells me what they heard or saw, I believe them, and I believe their friend who also saw, but not in the same way, and I can put these accounts together and I will not have a seamless wonder but a sandwich laced with mustard... Jeanette Winterson
Sylvia Plath quote: "The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It..."
The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence. Sylvia Plath
Susan Sontag quote: "I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have..."
I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path. Susan Sontag
I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me. A. E. Housman
Haruki Murakami quote: "The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe..."
The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow. Haruki Murakami
The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods. It took me four years, seven months, and three days to do it. I didn't know where I was going until I got there. It was a place called the Bridge of the Gods. Cheryl Strayed
(The fact that this was a fairly accurate portrait of my own mother is a quick indicator of how difficult it once was for me to tell the difference between myself and the powerful woman who had raised me.) Elizabeth Gilbert
J. K. Rowling quote: "if I were a death eater, I would have been sure to research my..."
...if I were a death eater, I would have been sure to research my own jam preferences before impersonating myself. J. K. Rowling
You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear? 'I love you' is always a quotation. You did not say it first and neither did I, yet when you say it and when I say it we speak like savages who have found three words and worship them. I did worship them but now I am alone on a rock hewn out of my own body. Jeanette Winterson
Stevie Nicks quote: "I have my own life. And I am stronger than you know."
I have my own life. And I am stronger than you know. Stevie Nicks
Every night when I go to bed I think, In the morning I will wake up in my own house and things will be back the way they were. It hasn’t happened this morning, either. Margaret Atwood

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