Sentence examples for split oneself from inspiring English sources

Nkoloso seems to have possessed a comic version of this condition, the ironic dédoublement — the ability to split oneself — that Charles Baudelaire saw in the man who trips in the street and is already laughing at himself as he falls.

It is impossible to tear oneself away.

There seems to be a split in unified consciousness of self, too: Consciousness of oneself as subject on the basis of doing acts of experiencing in that body goes with lack of consciousness of oneself as subject on the basis of other acts of experiencing being done in that body.

While the act of misrecognition becomes the basis for a sense of self or for self-consciousness, it is also an act of alienation, exclusion, or self-division; by erecting an imaginary ideal, representing oneself in a perfected image, the self is also split and rendered unconscious to itself, cut off from the multiplicity of dispersed drives.

As a quick aside, it is worth noting the implicit assumption in much of this literature that a 50/50 split is the fair distribution, whereas keeping most of the money for oneself would be considered unfair.

"One must show oneself deserving," he said.

Is it possible to smack down oneself?

Pacing oneself, thus, is virtually impossible.

The potential for enriching oneself is ample.

"The hardest coming out is to oneself".

"Pretending to scare oneself," he announced.