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Self-Conscious Quotes

Ian Mcewan quote: "Self-consciousness is the destroyer of erotic joy."
Self-consciousness is the destroyer of erotic joy. Ian Mcewan
Emile M. Cioran quote: "Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to..."
Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved. Emile M. Cioran
Simone de Beauvoir quote: "Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells..."
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself. Simone de Beauvoir
Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that? What's the trick? Stephen Fry
George Eliot quote: "Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute..."
Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity. George Eliot
Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. Ray Bradbury
Gloria Naylor quote: "Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism."
Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism. Gloria Naylor
None of this is important in itself, but I feel somewhere that it has a lot to do with why I have always felt separate, why I have always felt unable to join in, to let go, to become part of the tribe, why I have always sniped or joked from the sidelines, why I have never, ever, lost my overwhelmingly self-conscious self-consciousness. It's not all that bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing - they are not all bad. Those devils... Stephen Fry
David Foster Wallace quote: "There's good self-consciousness, and then there's toxic,..."
There's good self-consciousness, and then there's toxic, paralyzing, raped-by-psychic-Bedouins self-consciousness. David Foster Wallace
All thought of something is at the same time self-consciousness [...] At the root of all our experiences and all our reflections, we find [...] a being which immediately recognises itself, [...] and which knows its own existence, not by observation and as a given fact, nor by inference from any idea of itself, but through direct contact with that existence. Self-consciousness is the very being of mind in action. Maurice Merleau-Ponty
this is love. I have my self-consciousness not in myself but in the other. I am satisfied and have peace with myself only in this other and I AM only because I have peace with myself; if I did not have it then I would be a contradiction that falls to pieces. This other, because it likewise exists outside itself, has its self-consciousness only in me; and both the other and I are only this consciousness of being-outside-ourselves and of our identity; we are only this intuition, feeling, and... Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Adolescence is best enjoyed without self-consciousness, but self-consciousness, unfortunately, is its leading symptom. Even when something important happens to you, even when your heart's getting crushed or exalted, even when you're absorbed in building the foundations of a personality, there comes these moments when you're aware that what's happening is not the real story. Unless you actually die, the real story is still ahead of you. This alone, this cruel mixture of consciousness and... Jonathan Franzen
It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process. Larry Harvey
I think my voice worked out fine, but it was a lot of work for me. And I was very self-conscious about it. I was a bit self-conscious about writing lyrics too. Jerry Harrison
I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile. John Shelby Spong

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