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"Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder."
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"Know all the paths, but walk on your path! Be original!"
"There are many you's within you, but all of them are still you! You are nothing but different you's!"
"Your self-worth is totally different from your net-worth."
"A model is an actor without a voice."
"Life can be generous, but leaves us with a trilemma: How can we reconcile three diverse features: 'I', 'me' and the 'others'. Since the "I entails what I want; the "me what others expect of me and the "others what others themselves want. The bridges between "individuality", "surroundings and "otherness" can be abysmal and very often waiting to be restored. ['I am on my own side, but I can listen ']"
"We are what we remember. If we lose our memory, we lose our identity and our identity is the accumulation of our experiences. When we walk down the memory lane, it can be unconsciously, willingly, selectively, impetuously or sometimes grudgingly. By following our stream of consciousness we look for lost time and things past. Some reminiscences become anchor points that can take another scope with the wisdom of hindsight. ['Walking down the memory lane']"
"Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else."
"I was used to being invisible. People rarely saw me, and if they did, they never looked close. I wasn't shiny and charming like my brother, stunning and graceful like my mother, or smart and dynamic like my friends. That's the thing, though. You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are."
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"So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm."
"Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death."
"Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence."
"There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation."
"Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner."
"There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible."
"For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding."
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