self-hate

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is in our nature. Man is like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, tormenting himself with his own prickles.

man is like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, tormenting himself with his own prickles

is a thing you've really got to practice if you've got any integrity at all.

It figures you've got to hate yourself if you've got any integrity at all. Woody Allen

is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself.

more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself.

is a roundabout way of esteeming oneself as a self-despiser.

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser. Friedrich Nietzsche

is pervasive. Many people live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun themselves.

I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

is in any man's capacity and accounts perhaps for the only true dignity of man.

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.