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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about being, things

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Quote by Albert Camus

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Quote by Paul Gauguin about life, eternity, time

The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about life

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about life

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

Quote by Albert Camus about opinion, impossible, love

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

Quote by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis about sadness

One must know oneself, if serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about life, rules, nothing

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Quote by Cesare Pavese about opinion, circumstances, mistake, rightness

One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love any love reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

Quote by Cesare Pavese about love, vulnerability, woman

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

Quote by Erich Fromm about love, integrity, union, self-control

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

Quote by Bertrand Russell about origin, art, magic

One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.

Quote by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart about attitude, chance

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Quote by Jean Anouilh about love, gifts

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.

Quote by Georges Courteline about tolerance, life, people

Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

Quote by Jean Iris Murdoch about love, real estate

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Quote by Sigmund Freud about honesty, sincerity, being, good, good luck