to oneself
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He says in more recent times, the term has also been used affectionately of someone considered a bogan or even in reference to oneself such as the term "inner bogan".
From BBC
He recalls himself as a teenager, encountering Roth’s writing for the first time: His “confessional voice, explosive intelligence, and impatience with dishonesty to oneself all had the feel of a barrage of urgent letters addressed just to me.”
Carl Jung wrote, “Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”
From Slate
And it’s sort of a proclamation to oneself that there’s nothing in the universe that will stop you from flying, rising.
From Los Angeles Times
“If they took you into the Actors Studio, it made one say to oneself, ‘Maybe I have something.
From Los Angeles Times
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