Real Self Quotes (page 2)

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[As] authorities "over" us are removed, as we wobble out on our own, the question of whether to be or not to be arises with real relevance for the first time, since the burden of being is felt most fully by the self-determining self. William Gass

• fear
• confused
• failure

The only private language I know is self-exaggeration. I think I've grown a second self in this room. It's the self-important fool that keeps the writer going. I exaggerate the pain of writing, the pain of solitude, the failure, the rage, the confusion, the helplessness, the fear, the humiliation. The narrower the boundaries of my life, the more I exaggerate myself. If the pain is real, why do I inflate it? Maybe this is the only pleasure I'm allowed. Don DeLillo

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• die
• learning

In the short summer night she learned so much. She would have thought a woman would have died of shame... She felt, now, she had come to the real bedrock of her nature, and was essentially shameless. She was her sensual self, naked an unashamed. She felt a triumph, almost a vainglory. So! That was how it was! That was life! That was how onself really was! There was nothing left to disguise or be ashamed of. She shared her ultimate nakedness with a man, another being. David Herbert Lawrence

• self
• real
• coming

The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight. Paul Guilfoyle

• self
• real
• consider

I do not consider my self as having mastered the flute, but I get a real kick out of trying. James Galway

• thoughts
• real
• gorgeous

But the real secret to total gorgeousness is to believe in yourself, have self confindence, and try to be secure in your decisions and thoughts. Kirsten Dunst

• relationship
• personality
• real

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone. Ann Oakley

• confidence
• real
• love

I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence. Jeannette Walls

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• thinking
• friend

Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the real soul or self which has escaped - to reach it. Edward Carpenter

• self
• art
• simplicity

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things. Constantin Brancusi

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• real
• value

That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds. Mary Astell