
In Horace Twiss, The Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon (1844), p. 350
Source: Anna Karenina
In Horace Twiss, The Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon (1844), p. 350
Letter to a sister, Chamberlain Papers (30 July 1939)
Prime Minister
SXSW Keynote (March 2014). https://youtube.com/watch?v=l0DQnTw_TJA
“I can't sell myself. And I don't even want to. That's something that's not going to change.”
Interview in Musician magazine (1987)
Context: Where I feel this has cost me is in the personality situation, where you're expected to be a personality. You not only have to write and record, but you have to go out and sell it. Well, I'm not a salesman, and I'm very bad at selling things. If I had to do that for a living, I'd probably be completely broke. I can't sell myself. And I don't even want to. That's something that's not going to change.
“I will not allow myself to be worse than my fellows.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXXVII : The Neighbour Again; Walter to Helen
Ich setze Mich nicht voraus, weil Ich Mich jeden Augenblick überhaupt erst setze oder schaffe, und nur dadurch Ich bin, dass Ich nicht vorausgesetzt, sondern gesetzt bin, und wiederum nur in dem Moment gesetzt, wo ich mich setze, d.h. Ich bin Schöpfer un Geschöpf in Einem.
Cambridge 1995, p. 135
The Ego and Its Own (1845)