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find oneself

Verb

Meaning

accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation

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Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless. Jacques Lacan

I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters. John Cazale

To be an ignorant man, to posses nothing but a fragile word, to find oneself as if relying upon darkness and nothingness: that is the position from which one must be constantly setting out. Jean Starobinski

To find oneself in tight breeches. Spanish Proverb

My son went to Berkeley to find himself Source: Internet

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