Self-knowledge

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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
If ever asked to look at yourself, don't.
If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure.
To make yourself, it is also necessary to destroy yourself.

Voss
He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a subject in the third person and a verb in the past tense.

Dubliners
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

Ulysses
There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Mansfield Park
The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme - thinking too much.

A Writer's Diary
I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.

Orlando
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