Who said “Self-love seems so often unrequited.”?

“There is a voice inside which speaks and says: ''This is the real me!''”

“Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.”

“If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.”

“Learn what you are and be such.”

“Be that self which one truly is.”

“Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.”

“Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.”

“Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.”

“Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually controlled by them and lumbering gloomily down vistas of triteness. With a sort of heavy-fisted dexterity the mutually adapted emotions of each of them became synchronized, until the unavoidable anti-climax was at hand.”