There is something in you I like more than yourself. Therefore, I must destroy you.

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"When one loves, it has nothing to do with sex."

- Jacques Lacan

Love

"What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?"

- Jacques Lacan

Love

"I love you, but, because inexplicably I love in you something more than you - the object petit a - I mutilate you."

- Jacques Lacan

Love

"Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it."

- Jacques Lacan

Love

"I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object. What is realised in my history is not the past definite of what was, since it is no more, or even the present perfect of what has been in what I am, but the future anterior of what I shall have been for what I am in the process of becoming."

- Jacques Lacan

Self-awareness

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"Beauty is not about physical perfection, but about authenticity and confidence."

- Beauty and the Beast

Self-awareness

"Beauty is found in the unique qualities that make us who we are."

- Beauty and the Beast

Self-awareness

"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."

- Lily Tomlin

Self-awareness

"Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears."

- Laird Hamilton

Self-awareness

"True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less."

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