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The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.


Raoul Vaneigem

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PENELOPE DOUGLAS There is no pleasure that I haven't made myself sick on.
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN The reason why I do not know anything about myself, the reason why Siddhartha has remained alien and...
HERMANN HESSE Losing myself from this world, I found myself in your eyes. And then I started living my life anew.....
AVIJEET DAS I have been driven to search everywhere just to find myself mentioned. I am mentioned almost nowhere...
LOUIS DE BERNIèRES When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy.
ANON. When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy.
ANONYMOUS The assumption is that if I expend myself for myself in the end all I’ll be left with is myself, a...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH ...the taste of chocolate is a sensual pleasure in itself, existing in the same world as sex... For ...
DR. RUTH WESTHEIMER In Love I find myself.
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE I pray for sufficient wisdom to understand that wisdom apart from God is the stuff of opinion tainte...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE The deeper I go into myself the more I realize that I am my own enemy.
FLORIANO MARTINS I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of inte...
CARLA BRUNI Lately I find myself staring at people’s faces... I find myself frantically searching through the ...
PHINDIWE NKOSI But I'll make such a journey out of it, so that I can look back and say that I have lived a life wit...
SUSHMITA SEN That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converte...
C.S. LEWIS I myself find myself constantly under pressure and can perfectly understand that [this provocation] ...
BORIS BEREZOVSKY I don't myself believe in a two-state solution. I believe in a one-state solution.
EDWARD SAID I find myself fascinating.
MILAN KUNDERA I feel keeping a promise to yourself is a direct reflection of the love you have for yourself. I use...
STEVE MARABOLI I'm always in search of something, in search of losing myself to the music.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I try to find different ways of expressing myself. Without that I will die.
ERIC CANTONA Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
EMILE ZOLA I tell myself that I know you,
and then when I think about it, I realize that I don't.
NICHOLAS SPARKS For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done b...
IAN THORPE By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.
JACK DEMPSEY By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry
JACK DEMPSEY For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have do...
IAN THORPE In traveling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Pleasure, I remind myself, is inseparable from its lawfully wedded mate, pain.
T.C. BOYLE Such is my experience - not that I ever mourned the loss of a child, but that I consider myself as l...
DEBORAH SAMPSON I really work on paying attention to the clues my self is giving myself. For instance, I think of my...
GRETCHEN RUBIN The mere fact that I exist means that I deserve to be here and to express myself any damn why I plea...
EUPHORIA GODSENT I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.
JULES RENARD When I start to distance myself and that person doesn't notice, I realize we were never that close.
DONNAYSIA IFIELD I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.
ALICE SEBOLD I kinda live where I find myself.
BOB DYLAN I walk around engrossed in my stories and worlds, and I love losing myself in them!
SAMUEL COLBRAN I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in ...
MAN RAY Everybody has the same goal – I find that of particular value, ... I’ve learned a lot myself.
BRIAN KENNEDY Sometimes I have to pinch myself to think: have I really come this far? Because it is quite differen...
CHERIE BLAIR As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.
DAVID FRIEDMAN I could think, write or tell, instead I Lived and Created Myself!
RAMANA PEMMARAJU I'm not saying that the gas chambers didn't exist. I couldn't see them myself.
JEAN-MARIE LE PEN I had to make some drastic choices to avoid losing myself.
ELIZABETH BERKLEY I understood myself only after I destroyed myself. And only in the process of fixing myself, did I k...
SADE ANDRIA ZABALA What do I fear? Myself? There’s none else by.
Richard loves Richard; that is, I and I.
I...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is such a choice of difficulties that I am myself at a loss how to determine.
JAMES WOLFE In search of myself, I have created myself.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA Everyday I find myself reminding women around me to know their value. I also have to remind myself.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI I don't have to prove myself to anyone. I exist that's proof enough.
SUSIE L HILL I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.
MARILYN MONROE There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myse...
THOMAS MERTON I find many drawbacks of myself. But, each time when I visit Lourdes, I receive a lesson of reconcil...
MIREILLE MATHIEU If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you.
RICHELLE MEAD I find myself having these conversations where I go...“You know, the guy, in that place. The guy i...
DAVE BARRY i have learnt to live to please myself first instead of other people, when I lived to please others,...
STAN THE MAN SA The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTI I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.
STAN LAUREL If I find myself afraid or scared, that means I'm doing the wrong thing.
JACK HANNA The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existenc...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existenc...
VOLTAIRE I threw myself into that fire, threw myself into it, into him, and let myself burn.
SARAH J. MAAS I cut myself up really badly with the lid of a tin can. They took me to the emergency room, but I co...
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremen...
NOEL COWARD I like myself a lot more than I used to. I had a very difficult time in my twenties especially. It w...
JANET JACKSON I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about rega...
REX STOUT I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds.
TALULAH RILEY No. If I let myself love you, I won’t throw myself in front of her. I’ll throw myself in front o...
RICHELLE MEAD No. If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of yo...
RICHELLE MEAD I prepare myself to fight; I prepare myself for myself.
CANELO ALVAREZ I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something o...
AARON STANFORD Explore me,' you said and I collected my ropes, flasks and maps, expecting to be back home soon. I d...
JEANETTE WINTERSON The law of karma says that no matter what context I find myself in, it is neither my parents, nor my...
EKNATH EASWARAN Definitely for myself, I find myself gravitating towards dramatic work. In terms of sitcoms, you kno...
REGGIE LEE My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from t...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE No. If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of yo...
RICHELLE MEAD No. If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of yo...
RICHELLE MEAD I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challe...
DAVID MORRISSEY Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen...
JANE SEYMOUR There is a certain ‘niceness’ to a friendship where I can be, as they say, myself. But what I re...
VAUGHAN ROBERTS I find fun in putting myself into someone else's frame of mind, ... I try to be creative but I'm als...
BRUCE KATZ I don't like myself, you know. I love myself, of course. I'm devoted to myself till my dying day. Bu...
ANNE RICE Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I empty myself out and fill myself with the character. I would play a devil worshipper, and I would ...
NELSAN ELLIS When I find myself focusing overmuch on the anticipated future happiness of arriving at a certain go...
GRETCHEN RUBIN I must be myself, I said over and over. I must forget these people buzzing inside my head, I must fo...
ORHAN PAMUK it took
losing him
to finally
find
myself.

It took
losing him AMANDA LOVELACE I try to keep myself as sane and as grounded as possible by surrounding myself with normal people, s...
EMILY ROSSUM I kind of learned that I am way too tough of a critic on myself and that other people are not judgin...
LINDSAY SLOANE I parody myself every chance I get. I try to make fun of myself and let people know that I'm a human...
GARY COLEMAN I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself.
NICOLAS CAGE What she doesn't realize is that I have survived for her as well -- and only now am I beginning to s...
DANI SHAPIRO We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee in the time that I lived there so suc...
JAMES AGEE We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so suc...
JAMES AGEE I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT As I walk'd by myself, I talk'd to myself And myself replied to me; And the questions myself t...
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