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"I came to abominate my body, I came to sense that two eyes, two hands, two lungs are as monstrous as two faces."
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"It is not important what others think about you, it is important what you think about yourself."
"Do your clothes make you feel happy, beautiful, comfortable in your skin, handsome, confident, or powerful?"
"I don't have the body for this,' I quipped, lifting my chin to a voluptous woman nearby who shook her hips zealously to the beat. 'No curves.'Jev's eyes held mine. 'Are you asking my opinion?"
"You, lass, have a self-image problem.Well, that might be a little true, but she also had a mirror."
"If you could see your perfect image in the mirror it would remove all your fear."
"ASK YOURSELF: Do you appear self-confident or unsure? Do you project a calm demeanor or scream instability? Do you come across as a leader or try to stay invisible? Do you walk with purpose and intention or doubt and trepidation? Do you look vibrant and energetic, or stressed out and overwhelmed?"
"It's a girl thing, trying to change ourselves as if we can change our lives too."
"I have never, since the dawn of mankind, been adorable."
"What matters finally is how we feel about ourselves. After all, to a worm we're just food."
"I came to abominate my body, I came to sense that two eyes, two hands, two lungs are as monstrous as two faces."
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"I cannot combine some charactersdhcmrlchtdjwhich the divine Library has not foreseen and which in one of its secret tongues do not contain a terrible meaning. No one can articulate a syllable which is not filled with tenderness and fear, which is not, in one of these languages, the powerful name of a god. To speak is to fall into tautology."
"Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism."
"We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it."
"He was very religious he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety."
"A circle drawn on a blackboard, a right triangle, a rhombus--all these are forms we can fully intuit; Ireneo could do the same with the stormy mane of a young colt, a small herd of cattle on a mountainside, a flickering fire and its uncountable ashes, and the many faces of a dead man at a wake. I have no idea how many stars he saw in the sky."
"I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government."
"And so, as I sleep, some dream beguiles me, and suddenly I know I dream.Then I think: this is a dream, a pure diversion of my will; now that I have unlimited power, I am going to create a tiger.Oh incompetence! Never do my dreams engender the wild beast I longed for.The tiger indeed appears, but stuffed or flimsy, or with impure variations of shape, or of an implausible size, or all too fleeting, or with a touch of the dog or bird."
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