„April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to anyone – never.“

— Franz Kafka

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„I will live to make myself not feared.“
— Catherine the Great
„Why no. I’m too conceited. If you want to call it that. I don’t makecomparisons. I never think of myself in relation to anyone else. I just refuseto measure myself as part of anything. I’m an utter egotist.“
— Ayn Rand
„I was blessed with a sense of my own destiny. I have never sold myself short. I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself.“
— Sophia Loren
„Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.“
— Ernest Hemingway
„Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.“
— Jean Paul Sartre