Quotes about Self consciousness

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If I had a reader and he had read all I have written so far of my adventures, there would be certainly no need to inform — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Adolescent
Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else. — Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic's Notebook
She tries to maintain a nondescript exterior; she learns the sideways glance instead of looking at people directly. She — Mohammed Hanif, Our Lady of Alice Bhatti
Primary purposes of a mirror: (1) To help civilized men realize their imperfections, and, (2) To help the imperfect hide — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It was a relief to inhabit someone else's life for a while, to get her personal issues for a brief respite. In a play, s — Alexandra Robbins, The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School
To flatter a young man, tell him that you thought that he was older than he is. To flatter an old woman, tell her that y — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
And down I went to fetch my bride:But, Alice, you were ill at ease;This dress and that by turns you tried,Too fearful th — Alfred Tennyson
[Schulz] came to see that the better part of his shyness was really vanity, or self-centeredness. "Shyness is an illusio — David Michaelis, Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography
A push-up bra is to a woman’s chest … what 'breathing-in' is to a man’s stomach. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The sum of productive forces, capital funds and social forms of intercourse, which every individual and generation finds — Karl Marx, The German Ideology
Presidential campaign observer Teddy White on the second Kennedy-Nixon debate in which the candidates spoke from separat — David Pietrusza, 1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
‎What color is a chameleon placed on a mirror?...The chameleon responding to its own shifting image is an apt analog of — Kevin Kelly, Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World
A play that takes as its burden the meaning of self-consciousness may hint that inner freedom can be attained only when — Harold Bloom
Nobody would have anything to do with him. He began to drop things and to trip. He had a shy and hopeful manner in each — Joseph Heller
In the pre-war era when itinerant home-remedy salesmen still wandered the country, they had a traditional patter for sel — Akira Kurosawa, Something Like an Autobiography
In fact we do not try to picture the afterlife, nor is it our selves in our nervous tics and optical flecks that we wish — John Updike, Self-Consciousness
The faith in an afterlife, however much our reason ridicules it, very modestly extends our faith that each moment of our — John Updike, Self-Consciousness
My waist is a 30. The jeans are a 28. When I fart, the Reeboks blow off. — Steve Kluger
One quick glance in the mirror is enough for a lifetime. — Marty Rubin
Well, it all comes to this, there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is to live in — L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs