It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.
Robert Frank

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.
Virginia Woolf

It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.
Cornelia Otis Skinner

It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.
Berthe Morisot

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
Graham Greene

It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.
Herman Melville

It is in spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Sarah Bernhardt

It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.
Harold Brodkey

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Pierre Charles Baudelaire

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
W. Somerset Maugham

It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.
Hans Urs von Balthasar

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.
Greil Marcus

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
Soren Kierkegaard

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.
Nathalie Sarraute

It's dangerous to assert oneself.
Jeanne Moreau

Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.
Morarji Desai

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Sarah Bernhardt

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!
Paul Gauguin

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
Cesare Pavese

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Iris Murdoch