5 Quotes by Jeanette Winterson about self
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When I fell in love it was as though I looked into a mirror for the first time and saw myself.
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You had once asked me if I was afraid of death. I said I was afraid of not living. I don’t want to eke out my life like a resource in short supply. The only selfish life is a timid one. To hold back, to withdraw, to keep the best in reserve, both overvalues the self, and undervalues what the self is.
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I'm not afraid of what I am. I'm afraid I will see what I am not.
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And myself? Observe me. There is something to be gained from my surface uses, and perhaps a little more from my lower depths, but my very bottom? That's where I am alone, the observer and the observed.
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Often when she liked a picture she found that she was liking some part of herself, some part of her that was in accord with the picture
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