Word: oneself
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...made to live for others. But one really dies only for oneself." The author of this journal entry was 46 and world famous when he was killed in a car crash south of Paris on Jan. 4, 1960. Within this short life, Albert Camus had won the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature and produced a compact body of novels (The Stranger, The Plague), plays (Caligula) and philosophical essays (The Myth of Sisyphus) that both defined and helped create a 20th century temperament: We are by ourselves in an absurd universe, compelled to act but bereft of any reasonable grounds...
...narrative .She acts as both a critical story-teller and a passive character. Writing 20 years later she says," "Memory is a liar, a cheat, a thief, a pirate," which distorts and creates significance out of the past. Indeed, this original approach challenges the way memory, especially memory of oneself, continuously evolves...
...word Islam, used only by non-Muslims to identify the religion, means submission in Arabic, or the act submitting oneself to one God, Asani said...
...beneath the dignity of decent and intelligent men and women to struggle over the superstitions of Louis Farrakhan, except that the struggle is really over the definition of dignity. Farrakhan represents the view that hatred is an element of dignity, that a proper respect for oneself and one's own is well expressed by a proper disrespect for others. In this view, he is not alone; as a society we have gone from a hatred of hatred to a fascination with...
Difficulty in expressing oneself...