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Self-Dislike
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“Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.”
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“Don't pass judgment upon yourself. People are not especially interested in what you think of your own character or personality.”
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“There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.”
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“Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well.”
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“Let's not hate ourselves. We are all we have. ... I have been a longtime perpetrator of hate crimes against myself, and I am turning myself in. I have had enough.”
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“... each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat and sees the wholeness of the other person's.”
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“Self-hatred leads to the need either to dominate or to be dominated.”
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“There is no wretchedness like self-reproach.”
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“He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.”
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“I sit and pass judgment on myself: this is dull, this is unclear, this is insignificant: ergo I am dull, I am unclear, I am insignificant.”
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“Easier, she thinks, to hate yourself than to respect yourself: it involves less imagination.”
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“Self-criticism, like self-administered brain surgery, is perhaps not a good idea. Can the 'self' see the 'self' with any objectivity?”
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“Self-loathing is the silent hemorrhaging of the soul. You don't feel or see the life force fleeing until it's not longer there, and then, of course, it's too late.”
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“It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.”