"I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self."

Identity, Quest, Self

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"I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self."

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"Maybe I'd always been broken and dark inside. Maybe someone who've been born whole and good would have put down the ash dagger and embraced death rather than what lay before me."

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bell hooks, American Critic

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Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

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Stephen King, American Author

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"I moved in front of the medicine cabinet. If I looked in the mirror while I did it, it would be like watching somebody else, in a book or a play."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

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"Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a "work" of man."

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"I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets."

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"The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air."

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"The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process."

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"The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof."

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"Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the."

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"Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior."

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