Цитаты из произведения On Self-Respect

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mon_amie

22 января 2020 г., 23:13

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Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.

mon_amie

22 января 2020 г., 23:13

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There is a common superstition that "self-respect" is a kind of charm against snakes, something that keeps those who have it locked in some unblighted Eden, out of strange beds, ambivalent conversations, and trouble in general. It does not at all. It has nothing to do with the face of things, but concerns instead a…

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mon_amie

22 января 2020 г., 23:26

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I had somehow thought myself a kind of academic Raskolnikov, curiously exempt from the cause-effect relationships which hampered others.

mon_amie

22 января 2020 г., 23:23

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I faced myself that day with the nonplused apprehension of someone who has come across a vampire and has no crucifix at hand.

mon_amie

22 января 2020 г., 23:23

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...character—the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life—is the source from which self-respect springs.

mon_amie

22 января 2020 г., 23:22

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To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves—there lies the great, the singular power of self-respect. Without it, one eventually discovers the final turn of the screw: one runs away to find oneself, and finds no one at home.

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