They then only serve for a diversion, of which one continually feels an increasing need in proportion as one has availed oneself of it as a means of dispelling the discontent of one's mind, with the result that one makes oneself ever more-and more unprofitable and dissatisfied with oneself. With a view to the purpose first named, the beauties of nature are in general the most beneficial, if one is early habituated to observe, estimate, and admire them.英文原著 · 《The Critique of Judgement》
He made a good-humoredly satirical little bow. "I think you are charming," said he. "It would be a waste of time to look at or to think of anyone else when oneself is the most charming and interesting person in the world. Still--" He put into his face and voice a suggestion of gravity that caught her utmost attention-- "if one is to get anywhere, is to win consideration from others--and happiness for oneself--one sim- ply must do a little thinking about others--occasionally."英文原著 · 《The Dust》
Mademoiselle de l'Enclos, trimming her pen with her trusty knife, wrote to the lady in waiting an agreeable and polished letter, one of those letters, careful without stiffness, that one writes, indulging oneself a little with the intention of getting oneself read.英文原著 · 《The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan》
One must learn to love oneself--thus do I teach--with a wholesome and healthy love: that one may endure to be with oneself, and not go roving about.英文原著 · 《Thus Spake Zarathustra》
Brook: broke: have use of, enjoy. Busshement: ambush. Busk: make self ready. Icelandic - bua, prepare; sik, oneself; sk, for sik, was in old Norse or Icelandic a suffix marking the reflexive form of a verb. Caddie: younger brother. French - cadet, a young fellow who runs on errands. Clim: Clement. Clough: a cliff or fissure of rock, a glen between steep banks.英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
"It was there she sat! I'm not fit to breathe the same air."
He looked back towards the house. The figures of the two girls, with Da Souza standing now between them, were silhouetted against the window. His face grew dark and fierce. "Faugh!" he exclaimed, "what a kennel I have made of my house! What a low-down thing I have begun to make of life! Yet - I was a beggar - and I am a millionaire. Is it harder to change oneself?英文原著 · 《A Millionaire of Yesterday》
I mean, it's a hard thing to know even about oneself.美剧 · 《Billions》
Perhaps one could argue cloistering oneself from the world is itself a form of solipsism.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
According to Stanislothski, acting is the desire to create inside of oneself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him... or her.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》