oneself

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How about some truth in advertising: The debate’s title should have been “Agitating for Followers: the Art of Calling Attention to Oneself While Saying Absolutely Nothing.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 14, 2023

Anne Fadiman’s spring-term seminar, Writing About Oneself, is a survey of British and American memoirs, autobiographies, personal essays, and letters.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 8, 2019

In 1750, when he was comfortably into middle age, Benjamin Franklin wrote a humorous piece setting forth “Rules for Making Oneself a Disagreeable Companion.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 8, 2016

By the time Tony takes a soul-searching all-night subway ride to arrive at the story's bogus happy ending, the movie has thrown away its subject to lull us with sentimental bromides about Finding Oneself.

From Time Magazine Archive

Oneself amid this witchery How pleasantly one loses; For witches easier are to me To govern than the Muses!

From Faust — Part 1 by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von