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Siri Hustvedt

"Transformation of the self are related to where you are, and identity Is dependent on others."

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"Transformation of the self are related to where you are, and identity Is dependent on others."

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Amber Hurdle

"The image of God is in every human."

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"When we speak, dress, and think like others, we live with the goal of achieving the approval they have."

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"I'm not abnegation, I'm not dauntless, I am Divergent."

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"I feel like how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do. And I got so backwards, trying to make myself matter to him. All this time, there were real things to care about: real, good people who care about me, and this place. It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do."

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Amber Hurdle

"Your original self is worth more than your imitation of someone else."

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"Without accepting ourselves, we try to meet requirements of society and do everything to be accepted."

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"Find yourself, who are you?Choose yourself, who can you be?Define yourself to find your destination."

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"It's not the appearance that makes a man, it's the man that makes an appearance."

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"The light of God's love makes us unique personalities."

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"You are the author of your own destiny, write yourself into history books."

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"Artists are cannibals. We consume other artists, and they become part of us-flesh and bone-only to be spewed out again in our own works."
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"I am fascinated that no one I have read seems to have noticed that the literature on Picasso continually turns grown-up women into girls."
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"Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book."
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"There is no perception without memory. But good art surprise us. Good art reorients our expectations, forces us to break the pattern, to see in a new way."
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"Distortion is part of desire. We always change the things we want."
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"Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting."
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"The idea that skiing might not be fun, might not be for everyone, had never occurred to me. Where I come from, the sport signified pleasure, nature, family happiness."
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"The history of art is full of women lying around naked for erotic consumption by men."
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"I know, but he must have felt it that way, that evil was an emptiness, a lack of something, not a presence.'He turned his head fast and looked at me. 'That's what desire is, isn't it? The lack of something."
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"Only the unprotected self can feel joy."
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