I think that you don't really have self possession if you choose to live in a society because you cannot just discount the people around you.

我认为，如果你选择生活在社会中，就不可能完全拥有自我，因为你不能无视周围的人的存在。

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We live with a value system that I call the Extrovert Ideal—the omnipresent belief that the ideal self is gregarious, and comfortable in the spotlight.

我们生活在一个我称之为“外向理想型”的价值体系中——一个无处不在的信念，即理想的自我是善于交际的，在聚光灯下感到舒适的。

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Why do I deserve self forgiveness?

我为何要自我宽恕？

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I did not intend to fight unless it became necessary in self-defense and in the performance of official duty.

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So, Christ is that one to whom the little children can come, and I think she cultivates that childlike sense in her self-presentation.

基督是个连小孩都能沟通的人，我认为奥康纳在她的,自我呈现中也营造了那种童稚感。

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And then I, I self-publish, so I had to do the design and layout of the book myself as well.

因为这书是我自己出版的，所以书的设计、排版之类的事情都是我自己亲自做的。

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Self-Awareness: If I could only choose one attribute to have, I would choose self-awareness.

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Does it look like I gave up, like I thought it had no value, because I self-published it?

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"I have enough self-awareness to realize that I pretty much made an ass of myself last year, " he said.

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