"Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning."

-- Edsger Dijkstra

#Oneself Quotes

“I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing nothing by my own fault, my conscience was clear, and I was happy. This was when I was in prison.”

Source : Daniil Kharms (2007). “Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writing of Daniil Kharms”, Overlook Press
“The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.”

Source : Dashiell Hammett (2007). “Vintage Hammett”, p.151, Vintage
“If you and I got on an airplane, you're going to L.A., Los Angeles, and I'm going to Senegal, we get there about the same time. The world is just that small. So a world that is so tightly bound by science and technology and now Internet and the web page, that world is too small for bullies. It has no room in that world for arrogance.”
“When Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, he ignored the enormous possibilities of the word reform.”
“My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.”
“She understood the genre constraints, the decencies were supposed to be observing. The morally cosy vision allows the embrace of monstrosity only as a reaction to suffering or as an act of rage against the Almighty. Vampire interviewee Louis is in despair at his brotherâ€™s death when he accepts Lestatâ€™s offer. Frankensteinâ€™s creature is driven to violence by the violence done to him. Even Luciferâ€™s rebellion emerges from the agony of injured price. The message is clear: By all means become an abominationâ€”but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.”
“When I'm trying to write a song for someone else, you can only see anything through your own eyes.”
“Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty.”

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