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[Napoleon] swept away everywhere the establishments of feudality ... [He was] Caesar himself. — Karl Marx

Once upon a time there was a little prince who lived on a planet scarcely bigger than himself and who had need for a friend. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Why was he doubly irritated?
Because he had forgotten and because he remembered that he had reminded himself twice not to forget. — James Joyce

There was nothing fake or added about him. He was all himself. — Colin Cotterill

which he was evidently setting upon himself had suddenly and utterly burst asunder. Holmes and I glanced at each other, and Hall Pycroft — Arthur Conan Doyle

He could end it. Only, he could not. He was going to die, perhaps the world would die, but he could not make himself kill another woman. Somehow — Robert Jordan

He was bright as broken glass and sharp enough to cut himself. — George R R Martin

But by the third year he had come to wonder whether Laura's purpose wasn't the shield behind which he was still hiding his own, even from himself. — Philip Roth

He was just changing, transforming himself into something new and different to carry his life forward in. All — Daniel Wallace

The way he kissed me felt like a brand. Like he was tattooing himself under my skin. — Tammara Webber

Beside her, Adam was once again retreating inside himself, most interested, as always, in the thing that remained unknowable to him: his own mind. — Maggie Stiefvater

Proving himself to himself was no small matter. — H.W. Brands

They had a ... dog called Bluey. A know psychopath, Bluey would attack himself if nothing else was available. — Clive James

Did not quite believe it himself, when he woke up thinking surely this was some mad dream. — George R R Martin

Diderot took the ground that, if orthodox religion be true Christ was guilty of suicide. Having the power to defend himself he should have used it. — Robert Green Ingersoll

I had plenty of time,' he said, telling himself that was one of the saddest sentences there is. — Laurence Cosse

To see was not to control, that self-understanding was far short of self-mastery. He was afraid of himself. — Richard Wright

Like a man who pinches himself to make sure he still has feeling, Chimen read to reassure himself that he was still alive. — Sasha Abramsky

He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself. — Victor Hugo

Poor Edward muttered something; but what it was, nobody knew, not even himself. — Jane Austen

Atreyu was fighting not for himself, but for his friend, whom he was trying to save by defeating him. — Michael Ende

This was exactly why holidays were so valuable, he told himself: they allowed you to stand back a bit, and see where you were going rusty. — Colin Dexter

He took the box but did not avail himself of a tissue. She understood. Sometimes it was comforting to feel the wetness of grief's tears on your face. — Julius Lester

The Prophet himself was a model of equity toward those who did not share his faith. Through — Tariq Ramadan

That was the way with Man; it had always been that way. He had carried terror with him. And the thing he was afraid of had always been himself. — Clifford D. Simak

Richard felt oddly proud. He had proved himself in the ordeal. He was One of Them. He would Go, and he would Bring Back Food. He puffed out his chest. — Neil Gaiman

Why was his grief more powerful than his love? Why couldn't he find it within himself to fight back?
Why am I not enough to live for? — Libba Bray

Kuni was the sort of man, Risana realized, who, rather than deceive himself, was so full of self-doubt that he could no longer see himself. — Ken Liu

He was trying to convince himself that he wasn't guilty. — Walter Dean Myers

There were times when she stood so close that he was amazed at his own ability to keep his hands to himself. Moving — Marissa Meyer

Suddenly, he had to ask himself, was love at first sight actually possible — Bella Andre

It was not possible to think except with one's brain, no one could stand outside himself in order to check the functioning of his inner processes. — Stanislaw Lem

Christ's suffering was redemptive not because suffering itself is redemptive, but because Christ himself is the Redeemer — Edmund P. Clowney

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half. — George Orwell

Some time before he introduced himself I'd got a strong impression that he was picking his words with care. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Finny never permitted himself to realize that when you won they lost. That would have destroyed the perfect beauty which was sport. — John Knowles

Dean was not in love with himself. He was beyond stalker-obsessed. — Priya Kanaparti

Joy Division was scheduled to play at Tier 3, but Ian Curtis killed himself a week before the gig. — Kim Gordon

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself. — Charles Dickens

He chuckled to himself as he walked. A warm woman and a battle to come. To be alive on such a night was a wondrous thing. — Conn Iggulden

Shevraeth himself was there to bid us farewell
a courtesy I could have done without. — Sherwood Smith

Weary of liberty, he suffered himself to be saddled and bridled, and was ridden to death for his pains. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Thus it came to him merely to run away was folly, because he could never run away from himself. — Sinclair Lewis

That's what Archie did - built a house nobody could anticipate a need for, except himself, a house that was invisible to everyone else. — Robert Cormier

a man who was friendly with everyone was an enemy to himself. — Mike Tyson

Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair. — David McCullough

He was always so happy when he returned that I wondered why he did it, why he tortured himself by watching a bruised world he couldn't heal. — Chris Struyk-Bonn

My dad didn't often bring me to the set, being an actor himself, so my infancy as an actor was wracked with a lot of giggles and nervousness. — Josh Brolin

William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others. — Dick Cavett

He was playing on the climbing structure by himself - or "by his own," as the children sometimes charmingly put it. — Claire Messud

If we could get people to think about Jesus, we reasoned, Jesus was more than able to reveal himself to them. — Judah Smith

He was not so anxious to prove himself right, as to be so. — Anthony Trollope

Jesus Himself was the first missionary ... He pledged His followers to be missionaries too! — Billy Graham

A soft inward look some into his eyes, as if he was amazed to find himself alive on such a beautiful day. — Sarah Porter

He saved her from the darkness,until she realized he was darkness himself — Unknown

Seth's clock had been set on survival so long that he didn't realize that he was starving himself of an essential element of being, that of having fun — Kenneth Eade

His strength was restored and, with it, all his desires to live; he went out, began living again, and died a second time for himself. — Marcel Proust

The one thing Andrew couldn't do for his son was to protect him from what he himself was, from the strange evolution and deep grief of his own life. — Deirdre Madden

Hitler at the end thought that he himself was one more casualty in the war. — Kurt Vonnegut

Drink it, he told himself. You have nothing to fear. As was — Dan Brown

Why should we always try to be true to our natural selves? What if our natural selves are assholes? Stalin was true to himself — A. J. Jacobs

He gritted his teeth, frustrated with himself, but there was nothing he could do about years past. Perhaps he could change the future. — Brandon Sanderson

Jesus Himself was untamed. — Mark Batterson

He'd always prided himself on being more civilized than his brothers, but so much for that; he was becoming aroused in a damned sewer. — Larissa Ione

If it was a sin for you to choose me ... then I would go to the Devil himself and bless him for tempting ye to it. — Diana Gabaldon

Throwing himself a party was like rubbing his nose in his failure to connect with people. — Christopher Bram

I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits. — Ben Bradlee

He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself. — Oscar Wilde

Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive. — Nawal El Saadawi

Bond was how Fleming saw himself; the sardonic, cruel mouth, the hard, tight skinned face. — Terence Young

There was no idiocy bigger than that committed by a man who believed himself the cleverest creature under the sun. — Sherry Thomas

He was in love with aspects of her. Andre wasn't capable of expressing himself like other people. He dreamt in smells, he heard music in colours. — Kathleen Tessaro

he worked with great intensity without sparing himself, & he was respected for this, but no one liked him" --crime & punishment — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Hope, Patrick knew, was the exact measure of distance
between himself and the person who'd come for help. — Jodi Picoult

Because he was suffering doubts about himself and his future, Adams may have felt comfort demeaning the behavior and the character of women. — Paul C. Nagel

He lies to himself the way he lies to me. He believes this. He actually believes that he was good to me. — Paula Hawkins

He was not a practical joke nor was he a fool but he was determinedly original and had a vague and modest idea of himself as a legendary figure. — John Cheever

I knew that a man was not only himself but also who he wished to be. — Stephanie Dray

Breathe!
It was a command. And order, and I pulled in a breath before he shoved himself back in, invading me, breaking me ... — C.D. Reiss

Horace normally didn't need anyone else to save his life. He was pretty skilled at doing it for himself. — John Flanagan

My dad was amazing. He raised five boys. All by himself. Without the rest of us knowing. — Anthony Jeselnik

Ensign Fitzgerald had somehow managed to get himself a jewelled sabre that he was now flashing around like a shilling whore given a guinea fan. — Bernard Cornwell

It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when the Great Creator was a child himself. — Charles Dickens

My mother had to explain that one couldnt compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed. — Sergei Prokofiev

The Logos was divine, not the divine Being himself. — Joseph Henry

So he held toward them an attitude of iron reserve; he lived with them, but behind a wall, a curtain. And toward himself he was even more exacting. — Richard Wright

Tom shut his eyes again, because when his eyes were shut, he could tell himself that there was light. — N.D. Wilson

He could solve this, Vimes told himself. Everything he needed was there, if only he asked the right questions and thought the right way. But — Terry Pratchett

He'd fashioned himself into one hard edge. He was all blade and no handle. If she held him close, she'd risk being cut. — Courtney Milan

An old guy was asked if he had ever googled himself. Probably not computer literate, he answered: "Of course, we all did, but we didn't call it that. — Mike Bove

He'd wanted to show his past tormentor what he was capable of, but he also wanted to prove himself to everyone. Now everyone was in the kitchen. — Markus Zusak

For an instant he was offended, but immediately knew he could not be offended with her because she was himself. — Leo Tolstoy

In his failure Nhu had withdrawn so far into himself that in the end his face was a mask that no longer opened onto the real world. — Frances FitzGerald

Talking to her now was like flailing his hands at a storm of hornets. It did nothing, and it stung, and yet he couldn't stop himself. — Joe Hill

Finally, after Death was ready to hang himself from boredom, the director cleared his throat. — Leigh Teale

He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

That Krishna himself was a historical figure is indeed quite indubitable. — Rudolf Otto

There Kelvin proved himself such a prodigy that he was admitted to Glasgow University at the exceedingly tender age of ten. — Bill Bryson

Our ice cream man was found lying on the floor of his van covered with hundreds and thousands. Police say that he topped himself. — Tommy Cooper

Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts. — Ovid