"Wherever this is light, look for the shadow. The shadow is me."

Identity, Light, Darkness, Shadow

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"Wherever this is light, look for the shadow. The shadow is me."

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"I am not the river I am the net."

Frank Herbert, American Writer

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"The sooner you answer the question, "who am I" the more effective and successful life you will have."

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"Fall in love with your uniqueness because that's what makes your presence on earth a very special one."

Edmond Mbiaka, American Author

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"What was it that marked me as a woman and was I prepared to let it go?"

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

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"How can you stand apart from the herd? How can you start to be noticed so people will remember you? How can you be heard above the noise? "What is your personal branding that makes you special, unique, individual, and memorable?"

Susan C. Young, American Author

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"You are a special and unique person, who has never lived before and who will never live in the future."

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"Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"When she fucked up all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she fell onto the enigma of herself."

John Green, American Author

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"I don't like to do what people expect. Why should I live up to their expectations instead of my own?"

David Levithan, American Author

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"There is a resemblance between men and women, not a contrast. When a man begins to recognize his feeling, the two unite. When men accept the sensitive side of themselves, they come alive."

Emotion

"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."

Creativity

"Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously. For example now, I hate the bank and everything connected with it. I also hate Dutch paintings, penis-sucking, parties, and cold rainy weather. But I am much more preoccupied with loving."

Emotion

"But my faith seems naive, at least today. Maybe tomorrow I can believe again."

Faith

"I was stirred only like a leaf in the wind, that is all. . ."

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"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."

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"We see the world not as it is, but as we are."

Philosophy

"I see enormous loves growing immense and finally crushing me."

Love

"If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way."

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"I am made only for passion; it is the temperature of love that I cannot endure. I am afraid, and I think it is death- everything but passion seems like death to me. Only in fever do I feel life."

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