... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off th...e conditioning of being despised, the fear of becoming the they that is talked about so dismissively, to refuse lying myths and easy moralities, to see ourselves as human, flawed, and extraordinary. All of us--extraordinary.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Manhattan has generated a shameless architecture that has been loved in direct proportion to its defiant lack of self-hatred, has ...been respected exactly to the degree that it went too far.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Prostitution, when unmotivated by economic need, might well be defined as a species of psychological addiction, built on self-hatr...ed through repetitions of the act of sale by which a whore is defined.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self- respect.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Considering that, all hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence... And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am looking over Self Control again, & my opinion is confirmed of its being an excellently-meant, elegantly-written... Work, without anything of Nature or Probability in it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discr...iminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »