"The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity."

Identity, Living, Opposites

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"The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity."

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"Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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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."

Sarah J. Maas, American Novelist

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"The confusion boys experience about their identity is heightened during adolescence. In many ways the fact that today's boy often has a wider range of emotional expression in early childhood, but if forced to suppress emotional awareness later on makes adolescence all the more stressful for boys. Tragically, were it not for the extreme violence that has erupted among teenage boys throughout our nation, the emotional life of boys would still be ignored. Although therapists tell us that mass media images of male violence and domination teach boys that violence is alluring and satisfying, when individual boys are violent, especially when they murder randomly, pundits tend to behave as though it were a mystery why boys are so violent."

bell hooks, American Critic

Identity, Violence, Adolescence, Emotion

"Each of us has no peers, because each of us is unique in who we are and what we have experienced.Anyone who tells you otherwise has quite obviously not met any of their peers either!"

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

Identity, Individual, Experience, Self

"She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog."

Stephen King, American Author

Identity, Truth, Emotion, Wisdom, Power

"I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Identity, Writer, Expression, Self

"I am a WomanPhenomenally.Phenomenal Woman,that's me."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Identity, Womanhood, Strength, Pride

"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

Identity, Self, Reflection, Perception, Life

"It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all."

Anais Nin, American Author

Identity, First, Right, Woman

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God

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Nothing

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Art

"I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative."

Writing

"I don't think I've ever read an old book through from start to finish. Not after more than six months after writing it, that is."

Writing

"If they tell the police, the police will find out she was driving, and her career will be put into hell."

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